This book discusses the transformative potential of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and its profound impact on three distinct member states: Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia. It explores how the AfCFTA, grounded in Pan-African values and founded upon trade theories, can provide a pathway to inclusive and sustainable development.
Asking key questions of the AfCFTA, the book discusses whether its rules-based trade framework alone can catalyse development and argues that effective implementation hinges upon aligning domestic environments with the core aims of the AfCFTA and bolstering institutional capacity in its member states. It also underscores the critical need to address constraints such as infrastructural deficits, trade finance challenges, and productive capacity deficits. Through combining insights from law and development theory with economic integration theories, the book creates a comprehensive framework for analyzing the domestic legal conditions essential for advancing the AfCFTA's developmental objectives. This approach accommodates the diverse political economies, economic policies, political histories, and development outlooks of each member state.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of trade law and with an interest in the AfCFTA.
This book discusses the transformative potential of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and its profound impact on three distinct member states: Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia. It will be of interest to students and scholars in the field of trade law and with an interest in the AfCFTA.
1. Context Setting: The AfCFTA and Development Perspectives
2. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Initiative: An Attempt at
Advancing Development Through Integration
3. The AfCFTA and West Africas Powerhouse: Nigeria
4. The AfCFTAInitiative: Case Study of Kenyas Attempt at Optimising the
Gains
5. Legal Frameworks and Institutions for AfCFTA: A Case Study of Ethiopia
6. Concluding Reflections
Yakubu Nagu has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cape Towns Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA), since 2024. He holds a masters degree in international trade law and a doctorate in commercial law, as well as an LLB in public and international law from the University of Abuja, Nigeria, where he is admitted to practise as an attorney. His work spans international economic and trade law and African regional integration, approached through a law-and-development lens. His research on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) contributes to Law and Development studies by introducing an African-integration-focused analytical model for assessing the continents regional trade initiatives and their developmental potential. Dr Nagu teaches on masters degree programmes, supervises postgraduate students, and maintains an active interest in other areas of law such as, technology law, artificial intelligence, African comparative legal studies and African history. He has served as a guest lecturer at tertiary institutions and postgraduate programmes in various parts of the world.
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