In fact, many people outside of Africa are not sufficiently aware of Africa’s quite rich experience with economic and monetary integration, and with existing as well as planned monetary unions across the African continent. In the next 20 minutes or so, let me do my part in an exchange of lessons learnt from monetary integration.
Given their example, it is probably not surprising that I ended up becoming a professor myself – albeit in economics, rather than statistics. After getting my doctorate, I worked in a number of economics departments around the country, including the University of Minnesota for most of the 2000s.