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Standard Bank’s Sola Adegbesan⏤ Why Africa needs homegrown financing solutions to its local challenges

An African Union illustrating a better future for Africa. To achieve this, the author says, Africa must rely less on imported solutions and look more to home-grown answers.

Africa, the second-largest continent and home to 1 billion people has long captured the imagination of the world. Today, different thinkers, and political and business leaders are preoccupied with a single question – how to help Africa’s economy grow so it can trade with the world on better terms?  The answer is simple: Africa needs to craft its own solutions to solve its problems. It starts with the promotion of a mindset of self-reliance. There’s no better way of expressing that self-sufficiency than creating innovative financing solutions to fund projects that could lead to sustainable economic growth in all the…

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Sola Adegbesan is Head of Sales, Africa Regions and International, Global Markets at Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by assets. He has extensive experience across African markets engaging in finance and markets advisory to corporates & financial institutions, market development and regulatory relations with African regulators, as well as market risk mitigation and wealth creation for Governments.

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