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| 7. CONCLUSION It has not been the intent of this paper to tease out the fine-grained variations in time-space convergence innovations or to uncover the root causes of sub-Saharan Africa’s weak attachment to the network society. Still, it would not take much forensic theorization to establish that the usual “suspects”—including political instability and cronyism, deteriorating terms of trade, Ochungo; JERR, 21(5): 61-80, 2021; Article no.JERR.74936 76 rampant tribalism and ethnic conflicts, excessive foreign debt burden, and subtle and not-so subtle looting by Westerners and their African allies, and soon are all implicated, in one way or the other [86]. The paper’s aim here is to sound the alarm bell to the powers that be in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse Castells’ prediction of an impending market deepening which argues that about one-fifth of the world’s population continues to do better, while about 40 percent of the world’s population, many of whom are very likely to be sub-Saharan Africans, continue to be excluded from the network society [57]. Pundits are banking their hope in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) whose potent to catalyse Intra African trade is billed huge as recently reviewed by Fe Doukouré Charles and Evan Lau , s work [88]. If embraced well, the empirical findings which paint the transport infrastructure as poor on top of border restrictions challenges may become less deterrents to trade expansion endeavours in Africa. The application of Equation 1 in defining Africa’s space time convergence will also become possible going forward in the face of her growing urban agglomeration. And more specifically, the continent of Africa should ideally have no geographical border to allow seamless transport system (mainly land transport. In simple terms, Africa, if it were possible should have an integrated regulation (i.e., cross border control management) to ease up transport logistics hence accelerating S-T-C speed. For now, the efforts are still a pipe dream if the blueprints are not implemented fully especially, the Trans African Highway Network. Download 0.77 Mb. Share with your friends:
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