Liberty Sparks Kenya’s Musila Muoki has argued in a new piece that African governments are stifling economic growth by maintaining artificial border barriers and ignoring the vast, informal cross-border trade that already connects the continent.
Musila wrote:
“Every unnecessary border checkpoint, every unratified free-movement protocol, every hour lost to a visa queue is wealth that was created and then confiscated before it could compound… Our job therefore, as people who believe borders should serve human flourishing rather than bureaucratic vanity, is simply to let our laws catch up to what our markets have known all along.”
Read the full piece on Liberty Sparks’ website.
Liberty Sparks Kenya’s Musila Muoki has argued in a new piece that African governments are stifling economic growth by maintaining artificial border barriers and ignoring the vast, informal cross-border trade that already connects the continent.
Musila wrote:
“Every unnecessary border checkpoint, every unratified free-movement protocol, every hour lost to a visa queue is wealth that was created and then confiscated before it could compound… Our job therefore, as people who believe borders should serve human flourishing rather than bureaucratic vanity, is simply to let our laws catch up to what our markets have known all along.”
Read the full piece on Liberty Sparks’ website.
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