Creating Africa's Digital Trade Age with H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General, African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in conversation with Mr. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, Founding Partner, Future Africa & Co-Founder, Andela and Flutterwave

The AfCFTA's Protocol on Digital Trade turns a continental market of 1.4 billion people into a single digital marketplace. This fireside chat sets the terms for the day's digital transformation conversations: what the Protocol unlocks for services trade, how AI is lowering the cost of moving goods across borders, and where skills become Africa's next competitive edge. H.E. Wamkele Mene has steered the AfCFTA from ratification to implementation, building the legal architecture behind a continental digital market. His interviewer, Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, has spent a decade building the human infrastructure behind that same ambition — Andela, Flutterwave, and now Talent Nation, built for Africa's AI workforce. One architects the rules; the other builds inside them — a conversation between the protocol and the population it's designed to serve.