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" Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. "
Mo Ibrahim
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Cooking
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" I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. "
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" Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world. "
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" Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results. "
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" When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. "
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" I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really. "
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" Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa. "
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" Before any investor goes into any country, he is looking for the exit door. "
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" When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law. "
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" Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. "
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" If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. "
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" Cape Verde produces good people. "
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" Experience counts in government even more than in business. "
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" We measure everything - why not governance? "
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" After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem. "
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Baby
" Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day. "
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" The mobile industry changed Africa. "
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" Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide? "
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" Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward. "
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" There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. "
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Trying
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Better
" The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice. "
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" What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work. "
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Success
" Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans. "
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Africa
Behalf
" Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?' "
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Who
Say
" I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread. "
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Africa
Now
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" Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum. "
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" In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. "
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" Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. "
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" While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence. "
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" Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. "
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