Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

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.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem.

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing