President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank), Professor Benedict Oramah, has said that he will dedicate his life after leaving his current position at the Bank towards the advancement of his vision of a Global Africa.
President Oramah said this while addressing an international Press Conference to roundoff the 4th Annual Africa Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) 2025 which held in St. George’s, the capital of Grenada from Monday, July 28 to Wednesday, July 30, 2025.
The press conference was addressed jointly by Professor Oramah, Prime Minister of Grenada, Hon. Dickon Mitchell and the Executive Vice President, Corporate Governance and Legal Services, Afreximbank, who is also the incoming President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Afreximbank, Dr. George Elombi.
The Global Africa vision as being championed by Professor Oramah embraces all of Africa, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and other People of African Descent around the world. He also recommends the formation of a Global Africa Commission that would drive the objectives of a Global Africa.
Professor Oramah said he hopes that the concept, especially as it concerns the integration of Africa and the Caribbean Community would be endorsed at the Africa-CARICOM Heads of Government Summit scheduled for September 7, 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The first of such Summit was held in Kenya in 2023 and this second meeting in September is aimed at strengthening ties, cooperation and trade between the African continent and the CARICOM region.
Professor Oramah, as President and Chairman of the Board of Afreximbank has, within the last four years of his ten year Presidency of Afreximbank, pioneered an era of large scale investment of resources into the development of groundbreaking projects in different countries of the CARICOM region and championed enhanced inter-regional trade.
He said that apart from joining the Global Africa Movement after leaving Afreximbank, he would spend more time traveling around the countries of the Caribbean Community and ensuring that the seeds he has sowed are well nurtured.
Prime Minister Mitchell hailed the pioneering contributions of Prof. Oramah and noted that conscious and determined steps must be taken, going forward to enhance the process of integration that has taken off and looked forward to more investments in Grenada and the larger CARICOM from Africa and greater flow of trade between the continent and the Region.
While stressing that Africa and the CARICOM need not justify the ongoing process of integration to anyone, pointed out that what was needed was for efforts to be intensified to remove any and every obstacles to such integration, including unnecessary visa and tax regimes.
Dr. Elombi, who reassured that the achievements so far recorded by Prof. Oramah will be sustained and improved upon, reminded the outgoing President and Chairman of the Board of the Bank that he will remain an integral part of the Bank.
