Africa Trade is devoted first and foremost to trade and investors. It aspires to go beyond the facile view of an Africa in motion by driving home the notion of Africa as a place to do business and invest. Africa Trade provides in-depth coverage of the changes in the trading dynamics between Africa and the rest of the world. It identifies the strengths and weaknesses of these manifold trade relatio
ns and seeks to resolve a number of important issues and questions, one of them being: Can Africa manufacture that which it now imports? Africa Trade also brings detailed analysis to investment trends, paying particular attention to Africans stake in the continent. Because of its increasing influential role played by foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa, the extent to which African nations themselves inject funds into their continent’s economic development constitutes data of vital importance. Another of the magazine’s missions is to continue explaining the workings of the North American market. As part of drive to enter this market, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) allow products from some 40 countries duty and quota-free entry to the American market. In addition to oil, US exports to sub-Saharan Africa include equipment goods, motor vehicles and car parts, wheat and other cereals, clothing, jewellery, fruits, and vegetable, wine, nuts, spices and other cash crops such as cocoa. The situation in Canada is very similar, given the proximity of the two countries.
