World Bank Group Timeline
Eighteen newly independent African countries join the World Bank Group
A wave of independence for African countries, cresting in 1960, meant an increase in membership in the World Bank Group. In 1963 alone, 18 new African states join the Bank in a single year. Lending and technical assistance activities in the continent will increase correspondingly in the following years.
Resource Gallery
Correspondence from President Black to the president of the Republic of Niger
April 10, 1961
President Black writes to His Excellency Hamani Diori to inform him of the appointment of Leonard B. Rist as the World Bank Group's new special representative for Africa (1870318).
The World Bank Group in Africa
Document date: June 1, 1967
The report describes World Bank Group financing in Africa, focusing in particular on the previous five years.
Memorandum from African member countries to World Bank Group president and International Monetary Fund managing director
Sept. 11, 1964
The joint letter from African World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund member countries contains recommendations to the two institutions "on various problems with which they are particularly preoccupied" (30104247).
Memorandum listing World Bank Group activities in African countries
March 12, 1963
The memorandum serves as a reference sheet containing short descriptions of World Bank Group investments in and interaction with individual African countries (1870334).
