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From Wall Street to Accra

by Pat Coate | May 22, 2009
"My ambition is to create a world class Ghanaian Bank, run by Ghanaian professionals."
- Edward Effah, banker

Last year Nnaana Adjei, 23, was working for a major investment bank on Wall Street.

Ms. Adjei's story is typical of a generation of young Africans who have been both pushed by the recession in the developed world and pulled by the potential in the developing world.

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