AfricanBUSINESS

N°313 October 2005

Cover Story Cover Story: Africa’s Top 100 banks

Editorial 13 UN’s missed opportunity

Cover Africa’s Top 100 Banks 16 Banking on the people. 17 How we ranked A fr ica ’s top io o banks. 18 The rankings table.

Region by region 20 Southern Africa:

South Africa still on top. 22 East Africa:

Kenya leads chasing pack. 24 West Africa:

Focus on the home front. 26 North Africa:

In a league o f its own.

Topic Brazil deepens African contact

Focus on Nigeria 27 N igeria’s banking revolution. 36 Plastic fan tastic comes to nigeria

Bankers to watch: 28 Jacobs Moyo Ajekigbe. 30 Erastus Akingbola. 36 Olutayo Aderinokun

Banking Special Report sponsored by the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID)

Cityview 44 Rising oil prices alarm

African importers.

Energy 46 Nam ib ia rolls out gas-to-pow er project.

Countryfile Liberia’s Weah goes for President

Topic 48 Brazil-Africa co-operation.

Countryfile 50 S. Africa: High speed train project back on track. 52 Liberia: George Weah’s toughest match. 54 Uganda: Should Museveni stand again? 56 Mauritius: Tourism to lead economic revival. 58 Ethiopia: Search for new routes to sea. 59 Sudan: G a ran g ’s death leaves vacuum

Books/Music 64 Black Gold o f the Sun and other books. 66 Ceasefire: Worlds

Apart Come Together.

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