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Your Excellency: Allow me the singular honour to say Akwaba (Welcome) in advance of your historic visit to “Black Africa.” I ask for Providence’s guidance and wisdom and the protection and blessings of our ancestors. As you make this historic trip to the continent, I will like to make the following humble requests to you in a form of this open letter On behalf of the suffering masses of Africa, I entreat you to tell your fellow G-8 leaders to promote real trade with African countries and to stop their double standards about free trade. Free trade should mean free trade for all members of the international community. If they really are interested in Africa's development, then they should remove all barriers to the free flow of goods from African countries to western markets. The World Bank estimates that dismantling import barriers by rich economies can raise national income in the Less Developed Countries (LDC), by about $100billion.

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