The Trading Without Borders Podcast turned four last November! To commemorate this milestone and to close out 2025, we did something special: the founder took the hot seat.

In this anniversary episode, the conversation reflects on the AfCFTA journey from 2021 to date, the evolution of the podcast, and the realities of advancing Africa’s trade agenda through conversations that matter.

In this episode, we explore:

• How far the AfCFTA has come since 2021.

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  Whether Trading Without Borders has fulfilled and continues to fulfil its original vision.
• The founder’s personal experiences, lessons learned, and challenges along the way.

• Practical recommendations for policymakers, businesses, and other key stakeholders driving Africa’s trade and integration agenda.

The episode highlights how non-tariff barriers show up at African borders and the cascading effects they have on supply chains

The episode explores the realities of informal cross bode4 trade, the logostics blindspots and what a more inclusive and supportive trading environmentcould look like.

Ziad Hamoui,the National President of Borderless Alliance Ghana, walks us through the on the ground experience of clearing goods at African borders and how border inefficiencies impact delivery times, increase spoilage and costs and weaken overall supply chain performance.

Launch of the Trading without Borders four-part mini-series where we go to the fronlines of Africa's trade landscape to explore how goods actually mive across African borders.

The episode highlights the launch of the Nigeria-East/Southern Africa air Cargo corridor as well as the Market access tool launch in Nigeria.