Case study #20:  Green Industrialization Leaders in Africa: What added value do they bring?

The fifty-two enterprises in the “Directory of Green Industrialization Leaders in Africa” are analyzed in the light of their degree of local integration. There is a preponderance (in number) of companies with a “medium to high” degree of local integration. This confirms that the green sectors manufacturing enterprises in Africa are not limited to screwdriver factories. The examples of several of the companies in the Directory, although very few in number given the continent’s needs, demonstrate that it is possible to manufacture products with a relatively high technological content, such as bicycles, wind turbine masts, railway equipment and solar panels, on the African soil and under apparently profitable conditions, with a significant degree of local integration.