Global Africa: Time for action is now

LAST WEEK there was a historical gathering comprising African leaders, bankers and business executives and their Caribbean counterparts in The Bahamas to map strategies on how the two regions can combine forces to confront global challenges headlined by nationalism and de-globalisation.

Afreximbank’s annual meetings and the  third AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) came  16 years after the African Union designated the diaspora as Africa’s sixth region.

It was also historic in the sense that Afreximbank annual meetings were held in the Caribbean for the first in an event touted as a reunion of all Africans in the context of Global Africa, a gathering tipped to shape the course of the two regions’ shared vision and aspirations.

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