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Africa Is Central to India’s Global Economic Strategy
India and Africa Target $164 Billion Trade by 2030
Written By Kendesi Mohammed
Africa has quietly become one of the most important pillars of India’s global economic expansion. Through rapidly growing trade, large scale investments, and sustained government support, India has positioned itself as a major economic partner on the African continent, benefiting both sides while reshaping South South cooperation.
Bilateral trade between India and Africa surpassed one hundred billion dollars in the 2024–2025 fiscal year, more than doubling from roughly fifty six billion dollars in 2019–2020, according to data from the Confederation of Indian Industry and The Economic Times. This dramatic rise reflects Africa’s growing role in India’s foreign policy and economic planning at a time when global supply chains are being restructured and emerging markets are gaining influence.
Indian exports have been a key driver of this growth. Automobiles, pharmaceuticals, mineral fuels, food products, and telecommunications equipment dominate India’s export portfolio to Africa, reaching an estimated forty five billion dollars in fiscal year 2025. These goods support Africa’s expanding consumer markets, healthcare systems, and infrastructure needs while creating substantial value for Indian manufacturers.
Africa, in turn, exports crude oil, diamonds, copper, and agricultural products to India, with imports totaling approximately fifty eight billion dollars. Although this creates a trade deficit for India, it secures critical resources for its economy and strengthens Africa’s position as a major supplier of raw materials and energy. The relationship is therefore not merely transactional but strategically complementary.
Trade, however, is only part of the story. Indian companies have invested deeply across the continent, with cumulative investments reaching roughly seventy five billion dollars between 1996 and 2024. These investments span energy, infrastructure, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, and information technology, making India one of Africa’s top five investors. Unlike short term extractive models, many Indian firms have focused on local production, skills transfer, and long term partnerships.
The Indian government has reinforced these commercial ties through concessional lines of credit, development grants, technical cooperation, and its Duty Free Tariff Preference Scheme for African nations. These initiatives have helped finance infrastructure projects, expand access to technology, and promote trade diversification, particularly for least developed countries.
As global power continues to shift toward the Global South, the India Africa partnership offers a blueprint for economic cooperation based on mutual growth rather than dependency. Africa gains investment, technology, and access to one of the world’s fastest growing economies. India secures markets, resources, and geopolitical influence in a multipolar world.
The lesson is clear. Africa is no longer a peripheral market in global economics. It is a central arena of opportunity, and India has already made its move.
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The Price of Success Nobody Talks About
Success Is Not Free. It Is Earned.
Written By Kendesi Mohammed
If you want success in love, business, and in the eyes of God, you cannot avoid the work. You must be willing to confront yourself, refine your character, sharpen your career, lead your team, and protect what you build.
Everyone wants money, fame, and recognition, but very few are willing to pay the real price. Successful people earn their income, manage egos, solve problems, carry responsibility, and still find a way to keep the people around them stable, respected, and valued.
We live in a world where people expect peace, money, love, trust, and loyalty to be handed to them. But nothing meaningful is given. Everything that lasts is earned.
I have learned that people who receive without effort rarely respect what they have. When everything is free, appreciation disappears. Growth happens when people are required to earn their place, their trust, and their rewards.
True success demands discipline, accountability, sacrifice, and consistency. It requires doing the hard work when nobody is watching and
standing firm when shortcuts look tempting.
Success is not entitlement.
Success is responsibility.
Success is earned.
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