The 2008 TIME 100 – Mo Ibrahim
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News
Description
Mo Ibrahim has always been a man of vision. His doctoral thesis dealt with mobile communications—in 1974. When he started a mobile-phone company, Celtel, in 1998 to work exclusively in Africa, there were just 2 million cell phones on the continent. When he sold it seven years later, there were more than 100 million. A British national with roots in Sudan, Ibrahim never lost faith in his native Africa.
Creator
William Easterly
Source
http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733758_1735112,00.html
Publisher
File
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