I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything. Mo Ibrahim More Quotes by Mo Ibrahim More Quotes From Mo Ibrahim Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet. Mo Ibrahim you village money people If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. Mo Ibrahim waves will spread shock Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. Mo Ibrahim hidden slavery difficult crime We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime. Mo Ibrahim expect cannot unjust loyalty I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office. Mo Ibrahim need free you speak More people smile at me now I'm richer. Mo Ibrahim more me smile people 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 religions rest peaceful country Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they? Mo Ibrahim will together work history When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. Mo Ibrahim aids think you people We measure everything - why not governance? Mo Ibrahim measure why everything why-not 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out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses. Mo Ibrahim look know you sunset Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise. Mo Ibrahim falling rise political young What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant. Mo Ibrahim consultant yourself who you I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. Mo Ibrahim subscribe africa because colonialism I think the Cold War was worse for Africa than colonialism. Mo Ibrahim africa think cold war 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 nice money problem baby 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 help medicine government people 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 you water 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 year lost time remember Roads are not practical in Africa. Mo Ibrahim practical roads africa
