""WE HAVE made history," said Nigeria's finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, after her abortive but widely backed quest this month for the top job at the World Bank. She would have been its first non-American president and her stature abroad has risen markedly as a result. But at home her bid for the Washington job has not helped her. Long distrusted as a supposed outsider by some in Nigeria, even though she was born there, Ms Okonjo-Iweala now faces gibes that she wants to flee."
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