Papa Madiaw Ndiaye: "Africa must build itself, by itself, and for itself." With these powerful words, Ecobank's co-founder Gervais Koffi Djondo did more than articulate a vision - he ignited a continental call to action. And as Nelson Mandela reminded us, "It always seems impossible until it is done."
Tonight, we gather here in Lom, the cradle of a dream that had no precedent. This city sheltered our early uncertainties, nurtured our earliest hopes, and held the first courageous belief that Africa could shape its own financial destiny.
The Ecobank Group Headquarters Agreement made Togo not merely a host, but the guardian of an audacious ambition: that Africans could build a cross-border bank for Africa.
