Angola and Djibouti are the only two members of the African common market, which have postponed tariff reductions of Egyptian goods because they need more time to develop their economies before fulfilling this commitment. If a country meets these criteria, its products receive certificates of origin. But transportation and export costs in the Africa market are generally high, so export-import operations should be done by a group of investors, rather than by individuals. However, transportation to Africa is no longer a problem because nowadays exports reach their destination in three or four weeks. Edited from Al Ahram Weekly Egypt s Africa Connection There has always been something seductive about Egypt.
Names can often be contentious.
And none more so to today s self-styled Afrocentrics, than Egypt. Afrocentrics never refer to Ancient Egypt by the Greek derived name. They prefer Kemet, or KMT the Black Land the word the Ancient Egyptians themselves used to describe their country. While the vast majority of Egyptologists would tell you that Kemet refers to the black soil of the Nile Valley, Afrocentrists claim that it refers to the color of the inhabitants of the Nile Valley in much the same sense as contemporary Sudan refers to the color of its people. Perhaps the most influential figure in the development of Afrocentric thought is the Senegalese historian Sheikh Anta Diop.