Introduction and overview / Patrick Low, Chiedu Osakwe and Maika Oshikawa -- African Union priorities in the WTO / Fatima Haram Acyl -- Economic diversification in Africa's number one economy / Okechukwu E. Enelamah -- Trade, investment and development / Rob Davies -- Integration into regional and global value chains : how is it done? / Joshua Setipa -- From Marrakesh to Nairobi : a force for the world trading system : from the past twenty years to the next twenty years / Moulay Hafid El Alamy -- Building capacity in Africa to facilitate integration into global value chains : contributions from the ITC / Arancha Gonzalez -- Investment and trade rules : increasing the stock of African foreign direct investment flows / Joakim Reiter -- Deepening African integration : intra-African trade for development and poverty reduction / Anabel Gonzalez -- Rising Africa in world trade? A story of traditional commodities and new products / Michael Finger -- Trade policy trends in Africa : empirical evidence from twenty years of WTO trade policy reviews / Maika Oshikawa, Ukamaka Anaedu and Vicky Chemutai -- Preferential trade agreements in Africa : lessons from the tripartite free trade agreements and an African continent-wide FTA / Stephen Karingi, Ottavia Pesce and Simon Mevel -- African trade integration and international production networks / Bernard Hoekman -- Implementing trade facilitation reform in Africa / Marcus Bartley Johns, Christina Busch and Gerard McLinden -- Trade rules, industrial policy and competitiveness : implications for Africa's development / Chiedu Osakwe -- WTO accessions, reforms and competitiveness : lessons for Africa / Alexei P. Kireyev -- Driving economic growth through trade policy reforms and investment attraction in the open world economy : the experience of China / Yuan Yuan -- Conclusions / Patrick Low, Chiedu Osakwe and Maika Oshikawa.