The Financial Times likes its African ‘leaders’ to be of a certain type.
In a profile of former Nigerian finance minister and new World Bank managing director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the newspaper’s William Wallis can’t contain himself:
Tough, articulate and Harvard educated, but dressed traditionally as a Nigerian, she is the ideal Davos African, in demand round the world.
The full article, which also praises here for speaking ‘… the right language at G8 summits,’ can be accessed here.
