Part 2 From Surfing to Serving The African Continental Free Trade Area and its promise to liberate and lift 30 million people from extreme poverty and boost incomes by $450 billion by 2035. However, as shown through past regional trade …

Part 1 A digitally divided Market Bloc The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), in its high ambition to boost intra-African trade, trade in value-added production, and trade across all sectors of the continent’s economy, has digital trade as one …

Aiming for far Away Skies Recently, the CEO of Ethiopian Airlines remarked that indigenous airlines in Africa could do more to facilitate the movement of goods and people under the AfCFTA agreement. The African Continental Free Trade Area pack remains …

Discarding the Board Room Jargon The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement is two years old.  The year 2023 marks the continued fruition of the operational phase of the agreement that brings together African countries to create a single …

The Missing Link The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) just entered its third year since its ratification. International bodies, governmental and non-governmental, continue to emphasize the need for the African continent to invest in quality and sustainable infrastructure if …

A Little Slumber… The African Continental Free Trade Area’s (AfCFTA) blueprint paints the picture of the Africa we want by creating one African market.  The free trade area agreement is one of several flagship projects of Africa’s agenda 2063, a …