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.
DevDispatch contributor Oluwatobi Ojo spoke with Tanaka A Ndongera, Director of Zimbabwe Youth Champion for Agenda 2063 on the role of young people in the implementation of the AfCFTA, and the pilot transaction on the Pan African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS).
The successful launch of the Pan-African Payment Settlement System (PAPSS) in January 2022 is no doubt a great achievement, and a right move, in the right direction – a strategic one at that. But do I think it will be enough for Africa to rest on that oar? No, it isn't.