CSR, SDG and the African Continental Free Trade Area

What is it about?

The article sets an agenda for systemic mainstreaming of CSR into the largest, cross-regional free trade arrangement in the world, AfCFTA. This article does not intend in any way to discredit (and has not done so) the commendable efforts which have gone into the AfCFTA so far. This article is intended to show that there is room to do more. As a precaution, Africa need not undertake a wholesale adoption of the EU CSR approach. That would simply be a bad legal transplantation process. CSR principles have never been about one size fits all. While the EU framework will serve as an encouragement for other regional integrations, Africa needs to properly transplant the useful principles within the EU framework to fit the socio-legal, economic and environmental milieu of Africa.

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