
Razak Musah Baba
Raz joined the Âé¶¹Ó³» editorial team in 2017 as news editor of Âé¶¹Ó³» Real Assets. He has over 15 years of experience as a financial journalist, having worked for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal where he worked as an equities reporter covering corporate news.
He later covered consumer finance and moved on to become a leisure reporter and helped manage the London corporate news and small-cap desk.
Aside from real estate and infrastructure, he enjoys discussing African traditional religion and historiography.
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