Having Sudanese businessman and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim on our board is just transformative. In Africa, he is the real deal, a proper rock star. He and his daughter, Hadeel, give us the intellectual static on the continent that we were missing—and that was so necessary to tune in to stronger channels. Before we met him, Mo was properly rude about some of our objectives. He steered us to transparency as a central goal—not just in Africa, but in Europe and America. We put in the research and found that corruption drains a trillion dollars a year from developing countries. “This is more
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