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The AfCFTA serves as the map for African trade and economic development, its mandate charging the continent toward an economic utopia. Yet its digital protocol, with a core scope built around diversity and vulnerable populations, excludes 90 percent of Africa's economic engine : the informal sector. This exclusion is further compounded by the language exclusion informal enterprises face, where digital platforms and AI systems meant to power digital trade have yet to incorporate indigenous languages, stifled by a data drought that is decades in the making. This paper argues that the interaction of the Digital Trade Protocol and its Rules of Origin Annex leaves informal cross-border traders without a clear, proportionate route to digital trade benefits, and that unequal African-language AI capacity turns the Protocol's promise of legal inclusion into practical exclusion.

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the African air transport industry, widely and comprehensively combining historical insight, policy analysis, legal frameworks, and strategic recommendations to outline the trajectory of aviation development in Africa. It positions the aviation sector not simply as an economic driver but as a strategic enabler of continental integration, trade, and socio-economic transformation, an aspiration shared globally. At a time when Africa’s aviation industry is rebuilding after the unprecedented impact of COVID-19 and navigating challenging liberalisation initiatives such as the Yamoussoukro Decision (YD) and the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), the book offers a timely and relevant contribution to policy discourse.

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