The Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Samuel Tweah, has been named Africa’s Minister of Finance of the Year by the African Leadership Magazine at its 9th Persons of the Year Investiture ceremony. The awards ceremony was virtually held on Friday, February 26, 2021, under the theme, “International Leadership: Rethinking Development Priorities in Africa”.
The ALM award to Minister Tweah was in recognition of his outstanding leadership and contributions to Liberia’s economic development in the year 2020. He was placed among the top-most performing Africans on the continent for the year under review.
Others who won the ALM’s Persons of the Year awards include Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, World Health Organization (WHO), African of the Year; H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, African Political Leader of the Year; Tiguidanke Camara, CEO, TMG Group, African Female Leader of the Year; Mo Ibrahim, Founder, Mo Ibrahim Foundation, African Philanthropist of the Year; Sadio Mane, Footballer, ALM Young Person of the Year, among others.
A few months ago, Minister Tweah was awarded the African Inspirational Leadership Award in Public Service by the African Leadership Magazine from the backdrop of the 5th US-Africa Investment Forum and Policy Dialogue 2020.
The African Leadership Magazine Persons of the Year, which is in its 9th year, is an annual award reserved for distinguished Africans, who have blazed the trail in the year under review. A shortlist of nominees are selected from results gathered via a call for the nomination—traditionally promoted via a paid online and offline campaigns across the continent, Europe, and the Americas. The call for nomination is the first step in a multi-phased process.
This year, the selection committee expanded the categories to cover other key themes that are critical to Africa’s future ambition and sustainability aspirations. It included subjects that resonated with the continent in the year 2020, including individual, institution and group contribution to the fight to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Other themes included Africans whose activities, policies and actions have contributed to “investments in Africa’s young people, jobs and wealth creation; promotion of sustainable peace and development, delivering democratic values; and the promotion of Africa’s image globally”.
The magazine is published by African Leadership (U.K.) Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom. The magazine focuses on bringing Africa’s best to a global audience, telling the African story from an African perspective; while evolving solutions to peculiar challenges being faced by the continent today.
Viewed as a niche and unbiased African voice born out of a desire to tell the African story from an African perspective by focusing on individuals and corporates known for their legacy-based approach to leadership, the African Leadership Magazine has grown to become a leading pan-African flagship leadership-focused publication read by over 1,200,000 targeted international investors, business executives, government policymakers and multilateral agencies around the world, and is distributed at major international and African Leadership events.
