Top 128 Quotes by Mo Ibrahim

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.

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.

Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and just get away with it.

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.

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.

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.

In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.