President Buhari is in South Africa attending the Intra-African Trade Fair taking place in Durban. I hope the proposals he is putting forward include suggestions like this:

Ayo Akinfe

[1] As from 2022, all African nations must stop exporting wildlife. If anyone wants to see lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, gorillas, baboons, zebras, rhinos, hippos, etc, they should come to Africa. There is absolutely no justification for the zoo. For starters it is a crime against nature to cage wild animals and Africa's tourism industry will never kick off if her animals are constantly being exported

[2] We want to see the World Trade Organisation reach an agreement compelling the rest of the world to spend at least 10% of its capital investments in Africa over the next 20 years

[3] Every African nation must pass into law an African Union resolution banning the export of raw primary products. If anyone wants African cocoa, petroleum, diamonds, gold, rubber, kolanuts, cassava, plantain, bauxite, platinum, uranium, cashews, guar gum, groundnuts, etc, they should invest in local production

[4] It should be made a criminal offence to export an African primary product without adding at least 50% value to it locally. This kind of unfair trading should attract the same kind of punishment as say poaching, money laundering or human trafficking

[5] Industrialised nations should be compelled to evaluate all export orders from Africa. Before accepting any supply contract, they must first of all examine the options to see if this product can be produced locally

[6] The African Union should pass a resolution compelling the world's pharmaceutical giants to manufacture all the Covid-19 vaccines they want to supply Africa locally on the continent.

[7] The World Trade Organisation should pass a resolution compelling all the automobile giants to open up electric car assembly plants on the African continent. African governments should then pass local laws making it illegal to supply their countries with petrol and diesel vehicles as from 2023

[8] It should be illegal for industrialised nation to allow sitting leaders of African nations to purchase private properties within their domains. This is just another form of money laundering

[9] Whenever sitting leaders of African nations request medical treatment abroad, industrialised nations must be compelled to first of all offer such service within Africa. They should be asked to send out a team of doctors and only accept such patients if it is a life or death emergency with no other option available

[10] Given that African nations are going to struggle to afford religious pilgrimages over the next 10 years, the authorities in Mecca, Medina, Rome and Jerusalem should offer free trips to all African pilgrims over the next decade. If they do not, the African Union should place a moratorium on all pilgrimages for the next decade