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  No Women No AfCFTA. Whose integration is it anyway? Africa, which covers approximately 30 million square kilometers, is the second-largest continent in the world. In 2010, its gross domestic product was approximately $1.6 trillion, compared with the U.S.’s $14.5 trillion GDP which is even three times smaller in geographical size. Given the challenges with continued failure in unification and development across the cross, the African leaders agreed to form the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) from the Pan Africanism perspective in a bid to come up with the Africa we want.   As an affirmation of their commitment to support Africa’s new path for attaining inclusive and sustainable economic growth and development African heads of state and government signed the 50th Anniversary Solemn Declaration during the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the formation of the OAU /AU in May 2013. The declaration marked the re-dedication of Africa towards the attainment of the Pan African Vis