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Celtel's Founder on Building a Business on the World's Poorest Continent
Ibrahim, MoArticle HBS-R1210A-EBack in the late 1990s Ibrahim, who was running a software and consulting company in the UK, regularly worked with big telecom companies. He began asking them why they were ignoring the huge opportunities to develop mobile communications in Africa, especially in countries where licenses would be free. The telecom executives who were his clients simply saw Africa as too unknown and too risky. One of them cited Idi Amin as a barrier--but Amin had b...Starting at €8.20