As it is correctly said, you can only judge a person's body of work after they have downed tools. What did they start with? What have they created? What have they left behind? What difference has it made?
So let it be with Professor Benedict Okey Oramah - President and Chairman of the African Import-Export Bank Afreximbank from 2015 - 2025 as he departs the institution.
For over two decades, African Banker magazine has charted the ups and downs of the continent's financial industry and the men and women who have shaped it. We can now say, with complete conviction, that Prof. Oramah - with apologies to Shakespeare, bestrode his world like a colossus.