The Lobito Trans Africa Corridor – Opening Up Opportunities For Africa’s Transportation

American President Joe Biden visited Angola to meet with President Joāo Lourenço, as well as the Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia and the Vice President of Tanzania. This visit – from December 2-4, 2024 – centered around the Lobito Corridor rail project, in which the United States has a significant […]
Africa: Time for a Reset for U.S.-Africa Trade Relations

Washington, DC — The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is a Game Changer Key Points: The advent of the AfCFTA completely transforms trade between Africa and rest of the world. The United States must now forge an innovative and robust business relationship with Africa, with the goal of an eventual FTA. The new AfCFTA offers immeasurable […]
The US-Africa Business Bridge congratulates the governments of the USAand Zambia

The US-Africa Business Bridge congratulates the governments of the USA and Zambia for the signing of a partnership compact through the Millennium Challenge Corporation on October 17, 2024. This Farm to The market grant agreement of is for $ 491.71 million and is designed to address constraints in Zambia’s agriculture and agro-processing sectors.
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA): Ensuring Africa’s Data Security in a Unified Digital Market

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is a landmark agreement that seeks to accelerate economic growth, reduce poverty, and promote regional integration among African countries (African Union, 2018). One critical aspect of this integration is the development of a unified digital market to facilitate cross-border data flows and e-governance initiatives. However, ensuring data security […]
African Elections Matter in 2023

For more than two decades now, Americans have held polarized views about the integrity and accuracy of votes in our national elections. As someone who once taught African election observers and African political parties, this was embarrassing early on. I recall hosting a Nigerian delegation in Florida in 2002 where participants asked to see the […]
What the Diaspora Needs to Do in 2023

Now that the New Year is upon us, we in the African Diaspora need to plan for joint action to better ensure that emerging markets under Diaspora control really are under the control of the indigenous people and not complain about others using neocolonial methods to maintain their dominance. That happens because we let it […]
Cryptocurrency and Emerging Markets

Being left out of industrialization for so long has been an obstacle for emerging markets in Africa and Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC). However, Japan and Germany had their infrastructures destroyed in World War II, allowing them to adopt newer technology in the reconstruction. Japan today the world’s second largest steel exporter due to […]
U.S. Summit Competition Disadvantage

For two decades, the United States has held a trio of conferences that used to be considered summits: the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Ministerial, Private Sector Forum and Civil Society Forum. They have comprised the American part of the international competition to win the hearts and minds of Africans. The US-Africa Leaders’ Summit […]
Africa Can and Should Feed Itself

I have worked on analyzing Africa issues for more than 40 years, and during that time, I have constantly heard appeals for humanitarian food assistance to African countries lest their citizens starve. No reasonable person would want that, and in cases of war, civil strife, or sudden natural disasters, such humanitarian assistance is certainly warranted. […]
Can Wakanda Become a Real Place in Africa?

When the Marvel Studios film Black Panther hit theaters in 2018, it created a couple of sensations. The first, of course, was that a major movie featured not only a mostly black cast but credited that cast for portraying an innovative, futuristic African society based on their natural blessing of vibranium, a mineral that fell […]