Andre nzapayeke biography

Central African politician (born )

André Nzapayeké (born 20 August )^[2] is a Central African politician and banker who served as Acting Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from 25 January to 10 August ^[3][4]

Early career

Nzapayeké was born on 20 August in Bangassou, French Equatorial Africa.^[2] The son of a pastor who also worked as a trader, he was a bright student who received a scholarship to study social anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.^[5] Nzapayeké worked in Central Africa in the development sector, studying many villages of the country.

Later, he worked as a consultant, and also taught at the University. In the early s, he was in the Security Council of the Government.^[2] He was briefly Minister of Rural Development under André Kolingba.^[5]

A technocrat, Nzapayeké rose to secretary-general of the African Development Bank and vice president of the Development