World Trade Organization: How an African head could make a difference

World Trade Organization: How an African head could make a difference

World Trade Organization: How an African head could make a differencemedia captionThe World Trade Organization is currently looking for a new director-general and three of the candidates are African.With three of the eight candidates to become the next leader of the World Trade Organization (WTO) coming from Africa, BBC Africa business editor Zawadi Mudibo looks at what difference having one of them at the helm would make for the continent. There is a growing feeling among African diplomats that someone from the continent should be at the helm of one of the world's top economic institutions.Whereas an American has always led the World Bank and a European has always been at the head of the International Monetary Fund, an African has never taken an equivalent position.But if one from Nigeria's