OPINION| Why is a self-sufficient continent so dependent on others?
For example, there are so few direct freight routes connecting African countries that goods moving from one African market to another may first have to travel on a large international vessel to Europe before making their way back to the continent.
Regional integration has been one of Africa’s longest-running ambitions, reaching back, at least formally, to the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963 and gaining renewed momentum with the emergence of the AfCFTA and the years of groundwork that followed.
But amid the optimism and the real progress to date, there are still some uncomfortable realities about how African economies trade with one another that need to be acknowledged.
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