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" You get over your first love by falling in love with something new. "
Mo Ibrahim
Love
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" Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education. "
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" Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?' "
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" The way forward for Africa is investment. "
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" Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. "
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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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" Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy. "
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" People never confess to failure. They should. "
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" Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.' "
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" Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored. "
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" Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying. "
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Expansion
Against
" Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius. "
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Kids
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People
" Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable. "
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" Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery. "
Mo Ibrahim
Face
Ignorance
Isolation
" I don't even have a small boat. I don't even have a toy boat in my bathtub. I don't have a biplane, I don't have anything. Those things are toys, and I don't need them to be happy. "
Mo Ibrahim
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Small
Need
" In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land. "
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Land
Growing
" There's no point in trying to hoard money after life, so better really to share with people. "
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Trying
People
Better
" 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
Uncomfortable
" It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it. "
Mo Ibrahim
Just
Election
Difficult
" Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. "
Mo Ibrahim
Profit
React
Taxes
" If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa. "
Mo Ibrahim
Quality
Better
Respect
" Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders. "
Mo Ibrahim
Diversity
World
Failure
" The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well. "
Mo Ibrahim
Win
Honor
Leadership
" More people smile at me now I'm richer. "
Mo Ibrahim
Me
Richer
Smile
" I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. "
Mo Ibrahim
Everything
You
Forward
" Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population. "
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Africa
World
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" Everywhere in Africa, you see Indian, Chinese, Brazilian businesses. Other than Coca Cola and the oil companies, it is very rare to see American businesses. "
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Africa
American
" The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. "
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Tool
" We measure everything - why not governance? "
Mo Ibrahim
Measure
Governance
Everything
" The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty. "
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Against
Cannot
Fight
" We need to keep pressure on our own governments to force more and more transparency. "
Mo Ibrahim
Pressure
Own
Need