While Afro-optimism emphasises the prospects of the African Continental Free Trade Area
(AfCFTA), Afro-pessimism focuses on the challenges of AfCFTA in Africa. Even as Afro …

Abstract In the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, there is the
discourse that trade facilitation programmes have opened borders for actors like informal …

The Covid-19 pandemic border closure policy and other anti-migrant policies in 2020 have
become another basis for flaunting the ECOWAS free movement protocols by member states …

A widespread argument in regionalism studies is that elite narratives are crucial for
strengthening regional integration projects. The essay shows that this conjecture does not …

Promoting development in Africa has faced significant challenges partly because of the
continent's peripheral access to global markets as well as its internal geographical …

Large-scale water infrastructure projects have seen a sudden surge to the top of the political
agenda in many countries as a means of addressing developmental goals at both national …

On the African continent, a commitment to Pan-African unity and multilateral organization
exists next to a postcolonial society whose 54 Westphalian states interpret the commitment …

Regionalism is essential for understanding Africa past and present. Few specialists would
contest that pan-Africanism is an important part of politics on the continent. The influence of …

This chapter, with the aid of in-depth interviews and secondary materials, undertakes a
critique of the African Union (AU) security architecture for ensuring peace and stability in …

In January 2021, the largest free trade area in the world measured by number of
participating countries came into effect. This African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) …