Free trade without free movement? Well, they do say it’s catches that win matches
The African Heads of States and Governments pose during African Union (AU) Summit for the agreement to establish the African Continental Free Trade Area in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 21, 2018. AFP PHOTO
Is it possible to create a continent-wide African free trade area wherein goods from one country to another move without undue hindrance by tariffs and non-tariff barriers?
If such a question were to be answered in the positive, we would all have the right to shout our hurrahs, as it would be announcing the dawn of the dream of African unity that our forebears expounded on at such length.
