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
Mobile communications had been around for a long time, but always as a limited market, constrained by the radio spectrum.
Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.
Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.
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.
When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had for breakfast. There was no real media.
You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.
To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.
Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries.
Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'
Experience counts in government even more than in business.
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.