By Somadina Eugene Okorie
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was presented to Africa as an economic revolution—a bold continental framework designed to dismantle trade barriers, deepen intra-African commerce, and position Africa as a unified global economic bloc.
On paper, the vision appears historic and revolutionary.
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A single African market of more than 1.3 billion people. A combined GDP exceeding $3 trillion. Fifty-four African Union member states signed onto what is now regarded as the largest free trade area in the world by participating countries since the establishment of the World Trade Organization.
But beneath the optimism surrounding AfCFTA lies a more complicated commercial reality—one whose true implications many founders, investors, and even policymakers are only beginning to understand.
The next phase of Africa’s economic integration will not merely be determined by trade volumes,
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