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At the creation of the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT) which later translated into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995, many thought that Africa was in for the much awaited sustainable development and poverty reduction. Unfortunately, observers and analysts have expressed shock and disappointment over the state of Africa and her poor despite their toiling and excruciating pains to wriggle out of poverty using the instrumentality of trade.