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In This Issue
from DAWN
Ricky Muloweni, Publisher
THE AFRICA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION looks at the coming year and years ahead with articles on the inauguration of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and on Tourism.
Both trade and tourism hold great promise for expansive and long term economic growth for the people of the African continent. Long term success in these areas will open channels for expansion in technology, agriculture, science, product development, creation industries and education.
With all of the challenges that we face at this time, the possibilities and promise that the future holds should encourage use all to fi nd our best path forward and to be a positive actor in this new beginning.
Look around you to fi nd sources of encouragement. ABA presents article after article on individual and business successes throughout this issue and our past issues. Some of the stories should encourage you to continue your personal move forward.
If you need more encourage, review the life stories of your heroes and our collective icons to add fuel to your personal fi re to achieve success.
Take the next step.
Ricky Muloweni Publisher/President dawn@africabusinessassociation.org aba@africabisinessassociation.org www.africabusinessassociation.org
About the Africa Business Association
The Africa Business Association is an independent international business development organization. We off er access to the latest resources, information, and best practices in advocacy and communications for the African Diaspora and the African entrepreneurs in Africa.
We work to help you have access to news and events as starting points for constructive conversations and calls to action. We seek to cut through the froth of the political spin cycle to underlying truths and values. We want to be so focused on progress that together we can provide a credible and constructive generation of Africans that take seriously our previous generations and act upon all their wishes, our hopes and aspirations to make lasting change for all future generations.
Africa Business Association "DAWN"
PUBLISHER/PRESIDENT Ricky Muloweni
ADVISORY BOARD Earl 'Skip' Cooper, II, CEO, Black Business Association H.E. Sheila Siwela, Ambassador H.E. Kone L. Tanou, Ambassador
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Ricky Muloweni
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks at a news conference on July 15, 2020, in Geneva, following her hearing at the World Trade Organization as part of the application process to head the international organization. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
THE TARIFF WARS OFU.S. President Donald
Trump's administration have garnered enormous press coverage over the past four years, and rightly so. They have pitted America against the other major economies in the world in head-tohead high-stakes disputes.
Global trade practitioners, however, have been equally focused on a battleground far from the eye of the general public — the World Trade Organization. The WTO, made up of 164 members, is tasked with trying to bring new global trade agreements and resolve disputes over existing trade activity. This has been a longstanding aspiration.
Since 2016, the Trump administration has energetically pushed a strong indictment against
