Africa’s Borders Are Still for Sale
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Integrate Africa Advisory Services (IAAS) is a pan-African consulting firm headquartered in Johannesburg, with senior partners working across the Horn of Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, and the world of intergovernmental organisations.
We exist to support the African Union, its member states, its organs, and its partners as they pursue the most ambitious political project of our era: the gradual integration of fifty-five countries into a single continental market, a customs union, and, in time, a political union.
Our team brings together African strategists, policy and political analysts, researchers, lawyers, and communicators. Most of us have served at senior levels in government, the African Union, regional economic communities, and international institutions. We have written the briefs, drafted the laws, sat in the negotiations, and lived with the outcomes. That experience is what we now place in the service of our clients.
Integration is the opportunity of our generation. It is also one of its hardest tests.
Through the African Union and its Agenda 2063, Africa is being knit together, politically, economically, socio-culturally, and through the infrastructure that links our markets, our people, and our ideas. The promise is significant: a continent that trades with itself, governs itself, and meets the world on its own terms.
The complications are equally real. Fifty-five member states arrive with different histories, capacities, and competing interests. Geopolitics is volatile. Political consensus on the depth and pace of integration is fragile. And many of the most consequential dynamics, who sits where, who speaks for whom, what is being traded for what, play out behind the scenes.
In this environment, good intentions are not enough. African stakeholders need a deeper strategic understanding of how integration actually works: who the players are, what they want, where alliances are forming, and how to position national and continental interests inside that picture. They need to identify leading players, positions, and interests, and to develop tailor-made strategies that harness opportunities and mitigate both the seen and the unseen risks.
IAAS exists for exactly that work.
We help our clients see the field clearly, develop tailor-made strategies, capture opportunities, and reduce the risks that come with reshaping a continent. We do this with rigour, with discretion, and with an unapologetic belief that Africa’s future is best designed by Africans, in partnership with those who genuinely back the vision.
IAAS works with African Union member states, AU organs and agencies, regional economic communities, development partners, political parties, civil society, and corporate bodies. Our four service lines are designed to meet decision-makers where they are, from the early-stage question through to implementation on the ground.
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