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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.
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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.
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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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The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.
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I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
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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 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.
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Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
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Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.
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Electoral turnout is falling among the young, and political apathy is on the rise.
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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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Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
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There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
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Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.
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The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.
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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.
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Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius.
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Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.
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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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Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent.
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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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Mobile phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.
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I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.
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Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
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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.
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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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What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.
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The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.
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Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.
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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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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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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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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.
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The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.
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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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