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The prize is $5 million plus $200,000 a year for life. Some years, nobody qualifies. That tells you everything about African governance.
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I sold Celtel for $3.4 billion. But the real value is that 100 million people can now call their families, check market prices, and send money by phone.
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Everyone said Africa was too poor for mobile phones. 100 million subscribers later, I think the market disagreed.
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Mobile phones didn't just connect Africa. They created African banking, African commerce, African information. The phone was the infrastructure.
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Good governance is not charity. It's the foundation of everything — business, health, education, security. Without it, nothing works.