Okonjo: The Most Sought After African Woman

These people keep trying to pry this woman away from us what is going on? Anyway lucky her, Okonjo is unarguably the most sought after African female technocrat in the finance field.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/09/05/iweala-aganga-named-as-potential-replacements-for-outgoing-wto-head/

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