Why Cabo Verde's Finance Minister is the right candidate for AfDB top job

Cabo Verde's Finance and Planning Minister Cristina Duarte, who has managed our economy over the past 10 years, like seven other Africans, all men, is focused on a?little-discussed but critically important election that will take place in less than three weeks.

A special group of about 54 people from across the continent and some 23 non-regional countries – Governors, they are called – will come together in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, to cast ballots in order to designate the person?who will lead the continent's premier development institution, the African Development Bank (AfDB) for the next five years.