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Top jobs at international institutions for Africans

As world’s big multilateral institutions are always keen to trumpet their global outlook. Art from far-flung corners of the world adorns their headquarters and should a visitor ever need to consult a massive map of the world, one is rarely far away. Most of the bosses of multilateral institutions have been white men. Sub-Saharan Africans, especially, have been overlooked. Until 2017 only one had led a big multilateral organisation. Today Africans lead several global institutions. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian, has steered the World Health Organisation (who) through the pandemic. What do you think about the “inclusivity” ?

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