To this end, some of the strategies that can kick start Africa’s economic transformation are suggested below: Regional integration Regional integration is indeed the continent’s biggest challenge, even though several countries in Africa belong to one regional grouping or the other.
Although there has been some achievements across some of these groupings such as the free movement of persons and customs union in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and common currency in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), Southern African Development Community (SADC), Southern African Customs Union (SACU) and  6  BIS central bankers’ speeches  East African Community (EAC).