Quotes by Mo Ibrahim - Page 3

Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Generations
Governance
Oxford
Term
Report
Commission
Future Generations
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Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Hopeless
Africa
Challenge
Continent
Ensure
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Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Civil Society
Empowering
Enabling
Mobile Phones
Phones
Society Political People
Civil
Economically
Socially
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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 / Entrepreneur
Failure
Borders
Extremism
Manage
Understood
Within
Across
Africa
Context
Increasing
Properly
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A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.
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Branded
Investment
Narrative
Africa
Basket
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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.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Democratic
Promise
Rule Of Law
Captain
Elections
Hold
Introduce
Restore
Rule
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When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.
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Breakfast
Broadcast
Channel
Sponsored
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Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Communicate
Society Better People
Informed
Young People
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If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Grassroots
Subjects
Constitute
Processes
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Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Delivering
Forging
Goods
Range
Success Stories
Africa
Services
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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 / Entrepreneur
Boat
Bathtub
Toy
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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.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Expansion
Incentives
Lobbying
Never Ending
Public Interest
Operating
Perverse
Seemingly
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Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Future
Able
Cadre
Class
Educational
Middle
Middle Class
Prosperity
Willing
Young
Future People Young
Now
Africa
Rise
African
Contribute
Educational Opportunities
Opportunities
Professional
Supported
Young People
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Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Nelson
Africa
Great World Gift
Great Gift
Mandela
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Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Management
Resources
Rwanda
Steps
Success Good Great
Success Story
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Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
China
Clout
Economic
Economic Power
States
United States
Nobody
Entities
Messes
Table
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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?
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Embrace
Why Not
Enhances
Governments
Hide
Remarkably
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I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Giving
Meaningful
Roots
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Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses.
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Outdated
Sunset
Bodies
Clause
Neither
Publicly
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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 / Entrepreneur
Distinguished
Honor
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
African
Scientists
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I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
Environment
Left
Sudan
Water
Fish
Ended
Qualities
Stayed
Survive
Wither
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For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Accurate Information
Courageous
Engaged
Legitimacy
Programmes
Account
Consolidate
Fully
Holding
Measure
Policies
Required
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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.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Aspirin
Choices
Congo
Darfur
Milk
Blankets
Buy
Number
Masses
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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.'
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Faith
Aging
Emerging
Financial
Social
Africa
Budget
Budget Deficits
Burdened
Countries
Crises
Deficits
Developed
Developed Countries
Financial Crises
Frontier
Major
Last
Widening
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Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Kids
Men
Cooking
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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.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Allies
Council
Defeated
Fine
Germany
Japan
Security
Security Council
Rules
Won
Frankly
Germans
Occupied
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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.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Citizenry
Congo
Diverse
Peaceful
Prosperous
Reaching
Sahara
Sudan
Africa
Construct
Cultures
Religions
Experiment
Largest
Multitude
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If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business.
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Guy
Hey
People
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What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Jobs
Government
Access
Citizens
Goods
Hospitals
May
Living
Government People Help
Government May Must
Public
Delivered
Directly
Government Living People
Must
Help
Standard
Provide
Schools
Services
Supposed
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United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.
Mo Ibrahim / Entrepreneur
Opportunity
Chinese
Missing
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