The three-day event, which is being held from January 25 to 27, 2024, is organized by the Africa Prosperity Network and the  African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat.

Today’s program was attended by heads of state and governments, top industries and financiers, sector ministers from six economic communities, as well as decision-makers.

Some speakers, during their presentations, discussed finance and investment, transport and logistics, agriculture and food sovereignty, natural resources and value addition, manufacturing, infrastructure, and ICT.

The three-day program, which has drawn participants from around the world, is under the theme, “Developing Prosperity in Africa: Produce, Add, Value, and Trade”.

Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, addressing participants, entreated Africans to work together to get the buy-in of the small traders and farmers to believe that a single market for Africans could benefit them.

“Let us work to get the buy-in of the small trader, builder, farmer, and seamstress and make them believe that having a single market can benefit them as well,” he urged.

Other heads of state in attendance include the President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana; H.E. Mohammed Irfaan Ali, H.E. Faure Gnassingbé, President of the Republic of Togo; the President of the Republic of Senegal; H.E. Macky Sall, H.E. Sahle-Wor? Zewde, President of Ethiopia, among others.

Africa Prosperity Dialogues

The Africa Prosperity Dialogues, organized by the APN in partnership with the Africa Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat and the Government of the Republic of Ghana, among others, serve as a dedicated annual platform that brings together Africa and Global Africa’s business executives and organizations, thought leaders, and political leaders to think together, plan together, and work together with the needed urgency to drive the goal of building the world’s largest single market in Africa.

The Africa Prosperity Dialogues were adopted by the African Union on February 19, 2023, by its supreme policy and decision-making organ, as an important instrument for mobilizing private sector ownership and drive of the continent’s all-important AfCFTA project. This took place at the 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government.