Because miguel azevedo spends two weeks each month traveling on the African continent, Citigroup's head of African investment banking must get special permission from his firm to fly to countries affected by the Ebola crisis. Azevedo spoke to Institutional Investor just after Nigeria, the regional hub for Africa's M&A growth story, was given the all-clear last month. The epidemic notwithstanding, investors are bullish on Africa, whose gross domestic product will expand from 5 percent to 5.75 percent in 2015, the International Monetary Fund forecasts. "Africa is long on growth opportunities and short on capital," Azevedo says, "so part of my job is to bring the two together."
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