 MTV-based meets brings young Africans from all over the continent, together in one room with some of the most powerful people in the world. Today, we're sitting down with Sudanese-born entrepreneur and philanthropist, Mr. Mo Ibrahim. A guy who's made billions from starting cell-tale and is now spending some of those billions on making Africa a better place through the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Let's meet the change-makers that will be asking him all the questions. My name is Ayah Shebi, I'm from Tunisia and currently I'm a full-time Pan-Africanist. I love the philanthropist and Mo Ibrahim. The way he could mobilize everybody at the center of speaking about governance. Globally, we're having a governance crisis. Everyone, no matter where you're from, is looking at leaders with mistrust and fear. I mean, one of the world's superpowers has a reality star as a president. Today, we're at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's governance weekend in Marrakesh, figuring out what good governance means to us, the everyday African. And by good governance, we mean leaders who have our backs. So, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, joined on stage by a group of young people, panelists, as we call them, for interview-based meets. And this time, our special guest is Mr. Mo Ibrahim. How's it going, doctor? Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you. I think maybe, just to get to know you first, if we had to relive one moment in history, what moment would that be? Not necessarily one that you were present for, but if you could be infusing to that moment. Maybe the day they finish building the pyramid. OK. What's the most extravagant thing you spent money on? The boat. Would you say it's introverts or an extrovert? In between, maybe, yeah. Shea or Mandela? Mandela? Amarna. OK. What's your favorite MCV show? Beside the MCV. I liked the Mo. Oh, OK. Anya, where's the Jay-Z? I prefer the wife. That's actually hilarious. So basically saying Kimo Beyonce then? Beyonce then. OK. It is Tunisians who made social media a tool for social change. When I was 23 years old in 2011, a 23-year-old in Germany might be traveling the words and volunteering somewhere or having an internship. But we were facing tear gas and we were rising up for something that we didn't know if we're going to win that battle or not. But we did. When the revolution started in Tunisia at first, we didn't have the support of the international community. But because we got our stories out, we made the news and we became the news. And then international media had to pick many of the footage and the blogging that we did. When I visited the US the first time, I was so surprised of people knowing very few about Tunisia's politics. Even after the revolution. And I started a blog to inform people about us and change the narrative about what's happening. But how do we do that on a massive level? Considering America choose not to be surprised, actually very few Americans know about American politics in a way. Change the identity by realizing, like we're having tonight a concert in Marrakesh. But we have musicians from South Africa, musicians from Mali. We're having a football match. We bring in the Congolese to play the Moroccans. This is what reduce our African identity. When we start to sing each other songs, learn each other rhythm and poetry, we make... Then we realize we're all brothers and sisters. And it's wonderful to have this diversity in Africa. So this, all the things which brings out our humanity and it is the borders between us, it brings us together. And that is, I think, is wonderful. So with the artists, you also succeeded to mobilize respected figures and celebrities like Grisha Michelle and Bono and Jane Aido and Kofi Annan. So what we're trying to do also as young people of this generation is to mobilize young people around the Pan-African vision. How can we learn from your experience? We need to work together, all of you. Is it about how to learn to work together? And because alone, we are weak, we're nobody. But together we are a movement. I lead a movement called Africa Youth Movement. What we do is we empower young people to be at the forefront of influencing peace building, governance, agriculture, transparency, accountability and all sorts of issues. So we ask the member, what do you need? And then they tell us. So for example, in the recent Cameroonian case where we had members who had internet shut down completely for about more than two months now in the Anglophone areas. And we just ask the member, what do you want? What kind of narrative you want to get out? And the mainstream media is not covering it. So we don't have any internet connection. So we call by phone. They try to go to other cities to connect. We get footage from them. We get some interviews and we try to get that out to the world and try to amplify those voices. So today, youth are using the power of internet, social media, technology to make social change and social impact. However, 60% of the population of the world is offline. And most of them are in Africa. So most of young people don't have access to internet. And if they do, they live under the rule of bad governance. So it's either the cyberspace is censored or the internet shut down for months. So what do we do about that? How do we get young people to access equal opportunities on the internet and to get access to information? Right. There are two sides to your question. The first one, really we need to continue to build infrastructure. By building infrastructure is not just roads and ports and it's also broadband. And I was amazed about the lack of interest from all the big internet companies, whether it is Google or Facebook or Microsoft, how much they invested in the broadband infrastructure in Africa and it's not fair. I think they need to put their hand in their pockets, build the infrastructure because you're gonna reap the benefit of that. That's a very valid investment for them. And I'm surprised about how lazy they are. The other thing about governments which shut down the internet and I have an example in Cameroon now, they shut it, I mean, this is despicable. And it all goes back to what we've been fighting for which is good governance. We need governments which come to serve the people, not to make life awful for the wrong people. I mean, it's amazing how some of our dictators and those long-serving presidents, you know, presidents who have been there for 40 years. Before you were born, you know? Yes. I think our generation is the most innovative generation in human history. Well, I think social media has definitely revolutionized how we engage politically as young people. It's enabled us to speak truth to power in different mediums. There are a lot going on in Africa. Just right after Tunisia, Yonamah movement in Senegal started to protest. The Burkina Bay youth started and they did the revolution. The student movement in South Africa, so it really swept all over the continent. And I think more and more we're gaining our voice and we're proud to speak up, speak up for change and speak up for things to be right. This is a global issue. This is about girls, this is about education, this is about terrorism, this is about young people. This is about what this whole conference should be about and nobody is talking about it. I definitely, that's a very important tool of protest and that's why people are shutting the internet to clamp down on protest, obviously. Look, what you do agree with that is you are silencing the people. That's not fine. And don't forget, a lot of businesses depend on the internet. Forget about politics, even business. Those guys looting their life because they cannot use the internet. So this in my view is criminal. I think our generation is bringing new ways of activism. A lot through art, a lot through innovation. This is an opportunity to be politically engaged, to speak in a way that they probably wouldn't have in the past. Be the change you want to see in the world. The world isn't built by one person. Everybody is rising up for their rights if they realize everybody is a citizen and they have the responsibility to do it. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Wonderful. Thank you. There's a mancha that says behind every great man there's an even greater woman. I'm curious to know what woman has had the most profound impact on your life. How and why? Yeah, I don't like that thing because it always puts women behind men. Maybe we should start to put women in front of men so I'm abstaining. That's a huge reason for that.