Former Cape Verdean President, Pedro Verona Pires, Named Winner of the 2011 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

The former Cape Verdean president, Pedro Verona Pires, has been named as the winner of the 2011 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership with a $ 5 million grant to be paid over 10 years and $200,000 annually for life thereafter.

African ’good Leadership’ Award Committee Unable to Select a Winner

The annual ‘African Good Leadership’ prize given to an African leader for good governance has failed to find a winner this year. The committee of the £3 million Mo Ibrahim award for achievement in African leadership, which includes Kofi Annan and...

Motivating Good Governance

The Mo Ibrahim Prize was announced three years ago. At that time I wrote on my previous blog (under the somewhat sarcastic title, “The Best Government Money can Buy?“) that “Mohammed (Mo) Ibrahim will use his self-made millions to...