Guest Post: CSIS Looks at Powering Africa’s Progress

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African Development Bank, Africare, CSIS, Darius Mans, Donald Kaberuka, Heirs Holdings, ONE Campaign, Power Africa, Tony Elumelu

Read on for a guest post on an event sponsored by CSIS last Friday that consisted of a “conversation on impact investing, electricity access, and increasing infrastructure delivery through public-private collaboration” with the head of Africare, President of the One Campaign, President of the African Development Bank, and a Major Nigerian financier.

Even though it was raining cats and dogs, the room was completely packed (standing room only).  The room was filled with official looking people in their best business attire. Speaking of business attire, I was surprised at the number of women who showed up in heels and flats ( I repeat, it was raining cats and dogs). You notice these kinds of things when your feet are sweating in your rain boots.

‘It’s Time to Move to the Next Level’: The President of the African Development Bank on the Era of iTunes & Africa’s Colonial History

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Africa Rising, African Development Bank, Brookings Institution, Donald Kaberuka, Homi Kharas, iTunes Africa, Jendayi Frazer

Kaberuka at Right

I ducked in today for most of ‘A New Agenda for African Development Finance in the 21st Century: A Conversation with African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka‘ at the Brookings Institution. Opening remarks were delivered by Homi Kharas of Brookings, who reinforced my previous positive perceptions and noted that Africa is growing in general – its economy, population, and cities.

He quickly turned things over to Kaberuka, whose comments rather impressed me,

AllAfrica.com’s Premium Advertisers

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African Capacity Building Foundation, African Development Bank, allafrica.com, ECOWAS

Observation of the day: I’m sure I’ve scrolled over it many times before, but I just noticed that several African international organizations are premium advertiser’s on AllAfrica.com (which has a DC office).

I find it particularly interesting that ECOWAS, which received significant criticism for it’s inability to engage the situation in Mali prior to the French intervention, is one of these sponsors.

The sponsorship of the African Capacity Building Foundation and African Development Bank are also intriguing, but make a bit more sense to me.

All in all, I think this is an interesting way for these organizations to spend money, particularly in light of repeated requests by the continent’s premier regional organization, the African Union, for United Nations funding of it’s participation in various peacekeeping missions.