Taking part in the Africa Outreach meeting at the G7 Summit in Taormina, Italy. Africa is the world's new frontier for trade and investment. Current indications are that Africa will have business opportunities worth $5.6 trillion by 2025. Across Africa, there is a rising tide bringing with it new national and transnational infrastructure; a better-educated labour force; a youthful, dynamic population; a diffusion of technology; and, most important, the true democratization of the continent. Indeed, right across the continent, opportunities beckon. To seize them, we will have to work together. The rewards are beyond calculation. A freer, more prosperous Africa is a more secure Africa. A freer, more prosperous Africa is a vital partner in solving some of the world's most pressing problems: poverty, immigration, climate change, terrorism. This is the time to put Africa's aspirations at the heart of G7 plans. by uhuru