The commencement of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) in January 2021 was a happy culmination of years of working to make African countries trade more with one another. According to Vera Songwe in ‘A Continental Strategy for Economic Diversification through the AfCFTA and Intellectual Property Rights’, “many on the continent look to the AfCFTA as an investment, economic diversification, and job creation blueprint that will shape the future of Africa in the years to come, help meet the SDG targets by 2030, and consolidate progress toward the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
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