All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

It was a no-brainer that the cellular route would be a great success in Africa.