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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
#Honor
#Important
#Leadership
#Money
#Win
Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Africa
#Business
#Difficult
#Place
#View
The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Everybody
#Going
#Information
#Means
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
#Future
#Now
#People
#Professional
#Rise
I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Free
#Need
#Office
#Speak
#Unspeakable
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
#Better
#Life
#Progress
#Quality
#Respect
If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Crumble
#Shock
#Sudan
#Waves
#Will
There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Crisis
#Face
#Governance
#Leadership
All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.
- Mo Ibrahim
#About
#Africa
#Congo
#Hear
#Somalia
The way forward for Africa is investment.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Africa
#Forward
#Investment
#Way
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
#Action
#Leadership
#Political
#Support
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Good
#Legal
#Three
#Well
#Who
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
#Fish
#Never
#Survive
#Water
#Will
The brain drain from Africa has been reversed.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Africa
#Been
#Brain
#Drain
#Reversed
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Industry
#Lost
#Remember
#Time
#Year
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
#Government
#Help
#Medicine
#Must
#People
Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Agriculture
#Pillar
#Society
#Women
While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Europe
#Important
#Policy
#Prosperity
The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Crisis
#Institutions
#Serious
#Trust
Experience counts in government even more than in business.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Business
#Experience
#Government
#More
Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Africa
#Behalf
#Come
#Develop
#Nobody
Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Africa
#Face
#Ignorance
#Isolation
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Important
#Law
#Rule Of Law
#Society
Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Behind
#Corrupt
#Every
#Politician
Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Democracy
#Harassment
#Place
#Violence
More people smile at me now I'm richer.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Me
#More
#Now
#People
#Smile
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Am
#I Am
#Just
#Politician
#Politics
Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.
- Mo Ibrahim
#Computers
#Expensive
#Need
#Power
#Very
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