Covering all major sectors of the burgeoning African economy and all its key geographic regions, The Africa Vision 2030 developmental blueprint was founded in Kenya and embraced by the African Union and various Regional Economic Communities such as COMESA, ECOWAS, EAC and SADC, in their bid to progress towards a Free Trade Area (FTA), encouraging free movement of persons, goods, services and capital. The Africa Vision 2030 blueprint aims to transform Africa into a newly- industrialising

middle-income continent that provides a viable quality of life for all its citizens by the year 2030.

Africa Vision 2030 is based on Africa’s economic, social and political success pillars. The three success pillars point to the need for a sustained economic growth rate averaging over 7% for the next 20 years, a society in which all people are educated, healthy and free from the grips of poverty, under people centred systems of democratic government.

This translates to the optimised exploitation of Africa’s cohesion in innovation and leadership, ensuring increased intra-regional trade, rapid infrastructure development, environmental sust- enance, entrepreneurial opportunity, enhanced education, gender equality, food security, water and sanitation facilities, adequate healthcare, telecommunications and sustainable energy development.