Africa’s long-articulated dream of integration is slowly edging from rhetoric toward reality—but not fast enough. At the heart of this ambition lies the African Continental Free Trade Area, a flagship ...

It is a cliché that Africa's struggles to feed its people, educate its children, tend to its sick, and create economic opportunities for its highly resourceful population is a blight on the ...

Another Africa Day/month has come and gone. Not much progress in Africa of late. This is not to say that Africa does not have any good news at all. Taking a look at one critical, if not fundamental ...

For more than a decade, the idea of a truly integrated African market has hovered somewhere between political aspiration and economic inevitability. With the African Continental Free Trade Area ...

From the 1960s to the mid-1980s, Western-owned or Western-controlled financial institutions governed Africa’s banking system. In 1985, everything changed when Gervais Koffi Djondo co-founded the ...

Africa - rich in critical minerals - will accelerate intra-continental trade and harness its natural resources for sustainable development by rolling out effective trade policies, to benefit from the ...