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
Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.
Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.
It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.
Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.
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.
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.
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.
Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.
Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.
Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'
Computers are very expensive and they need power, and that can be a problem in Africa.