— K.Y. Amoako, President, African Center for Economic Transformation

Earlier version of locally developed app was used to help tackle the 2014 Ebola outbreak

—Tali Nates, Founder and Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre

A flagship project of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, the African Continental Free Trade Area creates a market of 1.2 billion people with a combined GDP of $3 trillion.

— Zainab Hawa Bangura, Director-General, United Nations Office at Nairobi

— Dorothy Tembo, Deputy Executive Director, International Trade Centre

— African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat Chief Wamkele Mene