Economic prospects bright for Africa: Kaberuka

THERE is now a new conversation about the bright economic prospects for Africa, African Development Bank president Donald Kaberuka has said.

Kaberuka, who was named among the 100 most influential Africans together with three Zimbabweans by London-based New African Magazine, said: “I know people have a habit of running this continent down, but colonial powers who were in Africa from 1884 to the 1960s left a legacy in many countries of maybe five doctors, a couple of university graduates, old infrastructure, no universities, few schools. Today the things you see in the continent have been done by us, we Africans.”

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