Mo Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim
Dr Mohamed "Mo" Ibrahimis a Sudanese-British mobile communications entrepreneur and billionaire. He worked for several other telecommunications companies before founding Celtel, which when sold had over 24 million mobile phone subscribers in 14 African countries. After selling Celtel in 2005 for $3.4 billion, he set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation to encourage better governance in Africa, as well as creating the Mo Ibrahim Index, to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa Regional Advisory Board of...
NationalitySudanese
ProfessionBusinessman
CountrySudan
Mo Ibrahim quotes about
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.
If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.
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.
The fight against Ebola cannot undermine the fight against poverty.
All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.
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.
The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.
The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.
I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.
Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing
The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.
The mobile industry changed Africa.
There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.
The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.