A record 64 nominations have been received for the landmark annual event in African banking, which takes place on the sidelines of the AfDB Annual Meetings in Accra on 25 May.
Ahead of the 16th edition of the African Banker Awards, scheduled for May this year, we look back at 15 exciting years of an event that was the first of its kind in Africa.
After two years of the Covid pandemic, this is a good moment to pause and reflect on what has been happening. New African editor Anver Versi considers what he has learned from life under lockdown.
Omar Ben Yedder expresses his dismay at the dearth of big thinking coming from Africa and sets a challenge to the continent's thinkers to come up with powerful new visions.