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Tony Blair: Supporting Good Leaders Can Help Make this “Africa’s Century”

 

Speaking at the Center for Global Development, AGI's Patron Tony Blair said on Thursday that supporting good leaders in Africa is crucial to development success and can help make the continent the driving economic force of the 21st century. 

You can watch the full speech and a Q&A with the CGD President Nancy Birdsall and the Washington development community on 16 December 2010 above and a full transcript of the speech is available here.

You can read the essay by Tony Blair, "Not Just Aid: How Making Government Work Can Transform Africa" here. This pamphlet was published by the Center of Global Development to coincide with the speech,