Nigeria’s former Finance Minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been annouced as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.
BREAKING: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria is appointed as the next WTO Director-General.
Dr. Okonjo-Iweala makes history as the first woman and the first African to lead the WTO.
Her term starts on the 1st of March 2021.
More details soon. #WTODG@NOIweala pic.twitter.com/2RJkkfK2Id
— WTO (@wto) February 15, 2021
The appointment is being celebrated by excited by Nigerians and Africans generally as congratulatory messages come pouring in.
Meanwhile, in a recent conversation with CNN’s Christine Amanpour, Okonjo-Iweala discussed women empowerment and equality;
“In the book, we say something about a sort of pecking order in the world where you have white males, then black males, then white females, then black females,” she says.
“So for every gendered situation, it’s so much [more] so for women of colour, and I think it’s even harder to call out sexism and gendered attitudes for women of colour. You don’t know whether it’s gender, whether it’s racism. Things have improved, both within my continent and also worldwide. But the issue is that the pace of change is too slow.”
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She goes further to explain the inequality issues women face adding that, “we need to talk to men in order to change things. It’s not good enough to just talk to ourselves as women. So the book is also for men because men can take action to improve things.”
Speaking on the World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says;
“The WTO needs … a fresh look, a fresh face, an outsider, someone with the capability to implement reforms and to work with members to make sure the WTO comes out of the partial paralysis that it’s in,”
Watch the full interview below
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