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.
African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.
Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they?
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 phones could not work in Africa without prepaid because it's a cash society.
Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'