Managing Director of Afreximbank’s Intra Africa Trade Fair (IATF), Kanayo Awani, lauds the political enthusiasm and leadership that drive the implementation of the continent’s integration agenda.
According to her, the strategic partnerships that are being built around the AfCFTA across the public and private sectors suggest that the agenda has come to stay.
She expresses that the various tools and innovations being rolled out by the critical stakeholders of the single market will be better out doored at the fair and that will grossly propel the actualization of the continental agenda.
Ms. Awani further indicates that the upcoming third edition to be held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, will be the rallying point for business connectivity and lasting partnerships for efficient trading under the AfCFTA.
“The success of the AfCFTA will be hinged on its effective implementation but how do we practicalize it? The main agenda of this agreement is to grow intra-Africa trade and to ensure that Africans are trading amongst themselves.
The trade fair is a platform that gives African businesses and policymakers a snapshot of this huge market. It was conceived to address the challenges that are inhibiting the growth of trade with Africa which is the lack of access to markets and trade information,” she tells Single African Market.
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