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It is not every day you get to chat to a billionaire. But as the presenter of the Africa Daily podcast I get to speak to some really amazing people with brilliant minds. And so I found myself recently in the gleaming London offices of Mo Ibrahim, the Sudanese-born businessman.
When he comes into the room he is relaxed and smiling and introduces himself as a retiree, but when he chats he is funny and feisty and clearly not taking life easy - and he ends up telling me off sternly when I suggest that maybe there are times when corruption is not a bad thing, that it oils wheels and makes things happen. No - he is very clear: corruption is always bad.
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