Indeed, Mo had put his money where his mouth was: in 2005, he sold Celtel to a Kuwaiti company and set up the Mo Ibrahim Foundation with the proceeds. Through the foundation, he is making a significant investment in governance, focusing exclusively on rooting out corruption. Despite his background as an entrepreneur in technology and a telecom executive, Mo thinks that whether Africa takes off economically will have less to do with telecom and innovation than with whether basic governance improves.
