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

I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.

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

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.

Governance is everything. Without governance we have nothing