Hi Quartz Africa readers,
Last weekend, I attended and moderated a session at Harvard Business School’s Africa Business Conference. The event brought together close to 1,000 academics, journalists, business leaders, investors, and innovators who believe in the promise of the continent.
One session in particular really stuck in my mind. It was a discussion between two very brilliant women—Elsie Kanza, Tanzania’s ambassador to the US, and Jumoke Oduwole, special adviser to the president of Nigeria—on the ease of doing business. Both left cushy jobs and private-sector careers to work in government because “they were tired of complaining about what was wrong with the government and not doing anything directly about it.”
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