Thought Leader / 29 May 2025 African Development Bank at 60: Time to reclaim the zeal of its visionary reformers The bank’s shareholders, African and non-African alike, must decide whether the mandate will expand to crowd in private finance, derisk green investment and underwriter regional public goods, or whether it will retreat to classical project lending By Obi Ezekwesili, Kalidou Gadio & Agnes Kalibata