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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015): Africa Review of Books, Volume 11, n° 1, 2015

Issue Published : January 3, 2022

2 - Nigeria’s Iron Lady

https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v11i1.5034
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Corresponding Author(s) : Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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Africa Review of Books, Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015): Africa Review of Books, Volume 11, n° 1, 2015
Article Published : January 9, 2015

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On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Cape Town in March 2013, I chaired a book launch starring Nigeria’s formidable first female finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, resplendent in her trademark African traditional dress and matching head-gear. She talked unpretentiously, without the affected foreign accent of some Nigerians that have spent two decades abroad. She had recently published a book titled Reforming the Unreformable on her time – between 2003 and 2006 – as finance minister of Africa’s largest economy, the world’s eighth most populous state, and its sixth largest oil-producer. She had been the architect of the deal to pay off Nigeria’s $30 billion debt (the second largest such debt deal with the Paris Club of creditors at the time), and led a team of technocratic reformers seeking to tackle corruption, build efficient public and private institutions, obtain Nigeria’s first sovereign debt rating, and transform the country into an emerging economy.

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Reforming Unreformable Lessons from Nigeria

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