🎙️ Episode 3 – Breaking Borders: The New Africa Trade Wave

📅 October 23, 2025 🎧 Hosted by Chad Chawanda – The Intra-Africa Trader

Africa is losing over $5 billion every year by trading within the continent using foreign currencies. In this episode, Chad unpacks how new trade systems, digital reforms, and payment innovations are redrawing Africa's economic map.

💰 Trade & Payments: Why using the U.S. dollar for intra-African trade is costing billions and how the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) can make local currency trade faster, cheaper, and fairer.

🌍 Policy Shift: With the end of AGOA, the U.S. Africa trade agreement, Africa faces a turning point. This is more than an ending it's a reset. A call to build regional value chains and strengthen AfCFTA-driven trade between African nations.

💡 Digital Future: From Nigeria's new National Single Window and Trade Facilitation Portal to a flat-rate air freight corridor with Uganda Airlines digital transformation is redefining how Africa trades, travels, and does business.

📈 Key Takeaways: 1️⃣ Trade in African currencies, not foreign ones. 2️⃣ Build Africa-to-Africa supply chains. 3️⃣ Invest in digital trade and innovation the engines of the next decade.

Africa's story is shifting from dependence to independence, from fragmentation to integration. This is the new wave of African trade and it's just beginning.

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