Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and Wamkele Mene, the Secretary-General of the African Continntal Free Trade Area Secretariat on Wednesday, 11 January 2023 launched the upcoming Africa Prosperity Dialogues (Kwahu Summit) 2023.

Dubbed the “Kwahu Summit”, the first of these annual dialogues will take place from 26 to 28 January, 2023.

Focusing on intra-Africa trade, the Africa Prosperity Dialogues is expected to bring together Africa’s political and business leaders to plan and work together on the all-important single market, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) project for the continent.

The Africa Prosperity Dialogues are symbolically dubbed the Kwahu Summit because the Kwahus of Ghana, the host nation, represent entrepreneurialship and trade and are known to support each other excel in business.

The organisers of the Kwahu Summit aims to support through enhanced intra-Africa trade, the elevation of Africa and her people to the highest summit of human living, dignity and prosperity.

The Summit is expected to bring into practical focus the continent’s critical challenges and industrialisation priorities and advance aggressively the commercial and infrastructural interventions to achieve the vision of creating the largest single market in the world of some 1.4 billion Africans.

The business and policy leaders’ dialogues which will take place on 26 - 27 January 2023, will be held at the Safari Valley Resort, in Adukrom, on the Akuapem Mountain.

On the 28 January 2023, the Peduase Presidential Lodge in Aburi, Akuapem Mountain, will host the presidential and business executives’ dialogues.