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Number 84 on the 2024 list
Akinwumi Adesina is a president from Nigeria, named to the AFN 100 in 2024 for receiving the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership, chosen unanimously by the committee.
On 6 March 2024, at the Lagos Continental Hotel, African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina received the Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership, with former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan among the guests. The selection committee, chaired by Emeka Anyaoku, chose him unanimously, pointing to a record of leadership going back to his years as Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture. In 2024 Bayero University Kano also gave him an honorary doctorate.