3rd Quarter 2023 Issue 62 An IC Publication

Nigeria: Tinubu’s bitter medicine for ailing economy Interviews: Clement Chinaka, MD, Old Mutual Africa Regions Benjamin Mugisha, African Trade & Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI) Events: Afreximbank celebrates 30 great years Backbase’s Johannesburg mission Africa50 Forum, Lomé African Banker Awards winners

Patricia Ojangole, MD, Uganda Development Bank

A long and thorny path to success

Banks battling fraud monster African sole traders finally get a look-in Unleashing power of women-led SMEs Time for Africa’s own credit rating agency? Zambia debt breakthrough

EUROZONE €8.00, UK £6.00, USA $9.95, CFA Zone C FA5.000, Egypt E£80, Ethiopia R200, Gambia Da300, Ghana GH¢40.00, Kenya KShs800, Liberia $8, Mauritius MR300, Morocco Dh60, Sierra Leone LE 70000, South Africa R50.00 (inc tax), Tunisia DT7, Uganda USh30,000, Zambia ZMW 100, Other Southern African countries R49.00 (excl tax), Tanzania TShs20,000.