"Due to difficulties of meeting conditionalities set by the Bretton Woods institutions, lately many African countries have not been able to get either short-term financing from IMF nor [sic] long term project funding from the World Bank. The African countries have argued that these conditionalities were unrealistic and did not take into account the environment obtaining [sic] in the continent ... Jimnah Mbaru ... argues the case for an African Monetary Fund as a viable alternative." (Quoted from article)