A retirement plan for African leaders, Mo Ibrahim

A retirement plan for African leaders, Mo Ibrahim

Mo IbrahimAfrican leaders, Ibrahim (says), look to retirement as they would to the edge of a cliff, beyond which lies a dizzying fall towards retribution and relative poverty.

“We don’t have financial institutions for ex-presidents to go and run, or boards of great companies. There is life after office in other parts of the world. I just read that Tony Blair was paid half a million pounds to make a speech in China. People like Blair always have a place in society, they have secure financial futures,” – Lunch with the FT: Mo Ibrahim