Mo Ibrahim Quotes
At the end, governance is reflected in what is delivered to people. If you have a good trade agreement, for example, hopefully that will reduce prices and help exports…. I have no opinion about who is better or worse. I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen. It is interesting for me to know who is doing better than the others. …We all have our perceptions. I go to visit a country, I end up in a five-star hotel in a nice city and I'm driven there and taken back and I say, ‘Wow, this is a wonderful country, it's safe.’ But I've been looked after. Is the country really safe? How do we get the facts away from perception?
His foundation had developed an index of how well governed a country is. It is referred to as “The Ibrahim Index.” Ibrahim was born in the Sudan and has focused much of his philanthropic work on Africa.
Mo Ibrahim, English Technology Industrialist & Philanthropist, Interview, The Zeleza Post, September 29, 2007
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His government had just used force to disarm the rebellion of religious Kurds.
Both the British and the Belgians were vying for Katanga to become a part of their empire. Msiri, it’s king was a cruel tyrant, was hated by his people, many of whom he had had murdered. Each night he slept in a different hut for fear of assassination. The appeal was typical of European powers “persuading” African potentates to join their empires.
On January 29, 1895 the Brass King, Koko, and 1000 warriors attacked the British trading station. The destroyed the harbor and docks and took many employees of the British Niger Company back to Brass as prisoners. The Niger Company had taken over the middleman trade that the Brassmen had previously enjoyed and had other grievances with the company. In a celebration of the victory, most of the company employee prisoners were eaten. See Koko’s later apology.
Nasir Khusaro Hamiduddin Abu Muin Nasir bin Khusaro bin Harith al-Qubandiyani
In 1701 exports of wool accounted for ¼ of all exports. By 1770, it was almost 1/3.
Dictators like Bashir view protests and demonstrations as threats to stability of the nation. The statement is code for “Stop the demonstrations, because stability is more important than reform.
Mohammed "Mo" Ibrahim is a Sudanese-British billionaire businessman. He worked for several 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 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, to evaluate nations' performance. He is also a member of the Africa regional advisory board of London Business School.
