For the AfCFTA to realize its aims and objectives of setting Africa on the path of shared socio-economic prosperity, the economy must run on an indigenous machinery of a home-grown medium of exchange.
Following the recently concluded Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) which took place in Cairo Egypt, our contributor Adebayo Abubakar caught up with one of the participants, Precious Di Phiri, a Malawian Entrepreneur with investment portfolios spanning organic foods and natural sustainable alternatives.
In this special interview, Adebayo Abubakar speaks with customs and trade expert Ms. Veronica Maoresa Zuze. She bares her mind on what Africa needs to do to ease most, if not all, of the customs-related barriers to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Africa may still have to live with carbon energy as part of the energy mix in the continent, until such a time when green energy will have taken a firm root on the continent.
Adebayo Abubakar caught up with South African author and publisher Nomawele Njongo to bare her mind on how upbeat she is about the AfCFTA’s prospects.
In this interview, our contributor Adebayo Abubakar converses with Zimbabwean business executive, Gugulethu Siso, who is a seasoned entrepreneur with a significant portfolio in Fintech and Logistics.
There is need to focus on synergising, synchronising, and integrating various countries' efforts into the existing platform of PAPSS, for the AfCFTA to run seamlessly on a machine of cashlessness.
Serious and urgent steps need to be taken, to stem the tide of the current wave of Brain Drain, so that Africa will not be short of the needed high-level manpower to actualize the vision of the AfCFTA, and by extension, Agenda 2063
This piece is focused on the need for partnership between the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, the African Union (AU) and academia (Educational Institutions) in Africa, to foster industrial development that would ultimately lead to economic prosperity.
In this exclusive interview,chieftain of Kwara Chamber of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture [KWACCIMA] Ayodimeji Olalekan Fatai bares his mind on how commendable the commitment of Kenya and other east African countries are, and what the rest of the continent should do, to complement their encouraging moves.