Nigeria’s AfCFTA strategy: Ambition, progress and challenge of delivery

By Ehi Braimah
In my last article, I wrote about Biashara Afrika, the premier continental business forum that brings together African heads of state, ministers, policy makers, SMEs, investors, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) implementation and explore intra-African trade collaborations. It was the summit’s third edition, which held in Togo from May 18–20.
I explained that AfCFTA is no longer just an idea after the Agreement was signed on March 21, 2018, in Kigali, Rwanda, and commenced commercial trading in January 2021. Since then, the focus of Africa’s most ambitious economic integration project has been on achieving a singl...