"If a European guy came to Africa and said hey guys, you don't have good - people could tell him to go to hell. You are an imperialist. You are a colonialist. Who are the hell are you to come and tell us what to do? I'm an African. Whatever I say nobody in Africa tell me well, it's not of your business. It is my business."

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Source : "Mo Ibrahim: The 'Bill Gates Of Africa'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 25, 2013.

Mo Ibrahim

#People Quotes #Guy Quotes #Hey Quotes

“It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.”
“Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.”
“I also know that I am not a great technician.”
“Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.”
“No relationship is easy, and nobody should ever think it is. The minute you start forgetting the needs of the other person is when you get in trouble.”
“Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules”
“When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!”
“I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I'm very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark.”

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