“Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.” — Mo Ibrahim Quote

“Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.”

“What we need in Africa is balanced development. Economic success cannot be a replacement for human rights or participation or democracy... it doesn't work.”

“Roads are not practical in Africa.”

“My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.”

“The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.”

“With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.”