Nigeria missing as 15 Best-Performing Central Bank Governors in Africa are revealed

A new report on the performance of bank governors, the Central Banker Cards, published annually by Global Finance, ranks the central bank governors of 101 key countries and territories as well as the European Union, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, the Bank of Central African States, and West African Central Bank states.

For the 2022 report, just three central bank governors from Africa made the top 20 global list.

Three central bank governors made the global list

Business Insider reporting said that Lesetja Kganyago of the South African Reserve Bank, Havesh Kumar Seegolam of Mauritius, and Abdelattif Jouahri, of Morocco.

Godwin Emefiele was not named on Africa's top 15 central bank governors.

He scored a C- grade by the magazine, lower than his African counterparts like Kenya with a B, Rwanda (B+), Ghana (B-) and Zambia with (C+).

Grades in the ranking are established on a scale of A to F for success in such areas as inflation, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

Here are the 15 best-performing central bank governors in Africa in 2022

Lesetja Kganyago: South Africa (A)

Harvesh Kumar Seegolam: Mauritius (A-)

Abdellatif Jouahri: Morocco (A-)

John Rwangombwa: Rwanda (B+)

Jose De Lima Massano: Angola (B)

Abbas Mahamat Tolli: Central African States (B)

Moses Pelaelo: Botswana (B)

Patrick Njoroge: Kenya (B)

Buah Saidy: The Gambia (B-)

Ernest Addison: Ghana (B-)

Florens Luoga: Tanzania (B-)

Denny Kalyalya: Zambia (C+)

Rogério Lucas Zandamela: (C+)

Marouane El Abbassi: Tunisia (C)

Johannes Gawaxab: Namibia (C)