The failure to integrate Africa's peoples emerged as a key challenge for socioeconomic progress during the African Development Bank (AfDB) conference in Kigali recently. This problem is not only responsible for the rather low-intra Africa trade volumes but also undermines the potential for Africans to learn from each other and to collaborate towards finding solutions for their common challenges.
One of the high level panels produced a rather candid debate that helped underscore the seriousness of the problem. And so, panelist after another pointed to the 'fragmentation' of markets and peoples and its debilitating consequences, before a consensus emerged that these were significant 'obstacles to economic development.'
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