As the world is fast becoming an integrated economic community with rising competition for export markets, skilled human capital, trade and international dominance. Africa needs to take advantage of its interconnectedness and her current status quo. AU and its many protocols represent Africa that is a country, which had been separated by the imported sovereign nations concepts. Africans are defined by a common share of language and a culture that runs along Ubuntu culture of the many Bantu tribes in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is a fact, culture is the basis of all development.

With the entry into force of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) in May 2019, it is an opportunity for each African country to reach the wider African market. The diverstiy in knowledge across the continent can only make Africa’s vast natural resources more potent to support the so needed sustainable development in Africa under AFCFTA.

At Continental level, Agenda 2063 is ImpEx strategic guide for its implementation. Worth noting is the composition of majority of our population in Africa being the youth group; with

the world a global village and even more now that the world intelligences are increasingly being shared with the accelerated online-fade and fact. Also, the recent past has demonstrated the centrality of human resource to every meaningful sustainable development. Our youth become the most important resource and pillar to our development.

ImpEx Africa aims to build the purposeful interconnectedness of meaningful supply chains consisting of a mesh of 2nd economy entrepreneurs supplying a range of resources to big business, let alone being the market too. In so doing the 2nd economy entrepreneurs including individuals, subsistence farmers and SMEs get to establish their individual performing business identity (PBI). With their PBIs, the 2nd economy members are formally recognised to create the necessary pull and or push for more, in particular big business engagement.