Founder and Chairman of Africa Prosperity Network, the organisers of the Africa Prosperity Dialogues, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has charged African leaders great and small and business climate to join forces and make their voices heard and felt, as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), success is tied with Africa’s success.
“AfCFTA, which is headquartered in Accra, Ghana, promises economic integration. Its success is our success. If it works, it will boost significantly trade and investments, provide jobs and increase prosperity across the continent, like never before. But, in order for it to work and work for us, the workings of the AfCFTA must be seen and felt from this onset to be for the people of Africa. For our collective ownership and shared benefit. It must be owned by businesses in Africa. The combined voices of Africa’s businesses, big and small, must be heard and felt,” Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko stated in his welcome address which was read via an online portal.
“The next ten years, Gabby indicated, “will determine whether the promise fails or succeeds. This year’s gathering is the first of many; the first of such many destiny-shaping retreats that we plan to hold. Your presence here today cannot be at all over-emphasised. And, we know that with your commitment from this day on, we can build a strong network of Pan-African partnership to make this annual retreat a most powerful, actionable platform of choice for building the one, prosperous Africa we want and know we can get done.”
Therefore, the founder and chairman of Africa Prosperity Network, charged that the aggregate value of enterprises and industries across Africa must be networked, coordinated and impactfully leveraged, and “That is why, we of the Africa Prosperity Network, are pleased to have created this dedicated platform, the Africa Prosperity Dialogues, as an annual retreat where business leaders, thought leaders, trade associations, development organisations, young and women entrepreneurs, etc., will sit together, think together, plan together, and work together, with urgency, to intensify the efforts towards achieving the goals of AfCFTA.”
The AU in 2018 adopted the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which has the all-important goal of turning Africa into the world’s largest single market.
This, the organisers of the Africa Prosperity Dialogues, is the biggest promise this century for the prosperity of Africa and the African. It is potentially, the world’s most exciting economic project this century, “And, this is what brings us here and now, quizzing that “How do we get the private sector to be deliberately and actively engaged in delivering the great ambition that AfCFTA represents? How do we, as Africa’s private sector, make the fulfilment of this promise our project?
