ABSTRACT
As the cradle of humankind, the Africa continent populated the rest of the earth through successive waves of migration. Africa only accounts for 2.4% of global exports – with 1.7% for sub-Saharan Africa – and is still poorly integrated into global value chains for manufactured goods. Although Africa is involved in trade networks, it has long been in the position of a spectator, along with its peripheral role in global politics. Migration levels seem to be without a precedent. And the statistics are there to prove it. There are more than 247 million migrants across the world. Among them, 34 million are African, compared with 104 million Asians. In terms of agricultural production, an important element to create African single markets, the next step will be to put in place a system that guarantees the prices and the sale of production in addition to a system of varied taxes on Africa’s external borders that will protect production from external competition.
