The CSIS Africa Program and the ONE Campaign engaged in conversation about opportunities for accelerated growth, investment, and development in Africa.
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Powering Africa’s progress
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Tony Elumelu Accepts AAI Leadership Award in Business and Philanthropy
Tony Elumelu, Chairman, Heirs Holdings Limited and Founder, Tony O. Elumelu Foundation, received the AAI Leadership Award in Business and Philanthropy.
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Opinion: New models for the development of Africa
The time has come for a new approach to development in Africa. Contrary to the current global trend, the economic prospects of the continent are very favorable for the coming years. Development models based on foreign aid, the charitable sector, sovereign debt, or the export of primary products, are no longer suited to Africa. Submit …
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Bloomberg TV Interview: Energy opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa
Tony O. Elumelu, CON, discusses investing in Africa’s energy sector with Bloomberg’s Trish Regan (October 10, 2013). Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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Africa: Sino-African, Japo-African, Euro-African Or Africapitalism?
Babatope Falade-Onikoyi writes: “Many years ago, the cover of The Economist magazine was titled: Africa- The Hopeless Continent. Recently, it was “Africa Rising”. If we want Africa to keep rising, we need sustainability and Tony Elumelu has provided the answer- Africapitalism.” Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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“Big Bets” Philanthropy: Partnership, Risk-Taking and Innovation
Participants: Tony Elumelu, Chairman, Heirs Holdings Limited, Bill Gates, Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Geeta Rao Gupta, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
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Elumelu, FG, Others Sign MOU On National Warehouse Project For Farmers
African Exchange Holdings (AFEX), a Pan-African holding company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, to create a pioneering warehouse receipt system that will enable Nigerian farmers and cooperatives to safely store their produce at accredited warehouses. Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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Opinion: Getting Paid, Not Aid: A Call to Revamp Aid in Africa
President Clinton has said, “No country can work itself out of poverty with aid alone.” Indeed, throughout Africa, we have seen first-hand how the international community’s traditional approach to solving the continent’s problems through charity and aid has fallen short. Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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Iftiin Foundation partners with US, Tony Elumelu Foundation to transform post-conflict Somalia
The Somali foundation, which received a grant from The Tony Elumelu Foundation, recently held the first Generation Change Summit in Mogadishu, where ninety youth activists and entrepreneurs came together to discuss the role of youth in changing a post-conflict society for the better. [wpfilebase tag=file id=1 tpl=simple /] Submit Cancel Thanks for your feedback!
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The Real Entrepreneur Unleashed
Tony Elumelu, the whiz kid of a good number of banking boardrooms appears to be living life anew. In fact, it seems like yesterday that this audacious whiz kid banker led the medium-sized Standard Trust Bank into an ambitious merger with United Bank for Africa. This cemented his corporate credentials across the African continent in …
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