Across Africa, a continent's manufacturers are sending a collective signal: the promise of industrial growth is being quietly consumed by the cost of keeping the lights on, the burden of expensive credit, and the friction of broken logistics. The Pan-African Manufacturers Association, speaking for factories from breweries to cement mills, has placed before governments and financiers a diagnosis that is both urgent and precise — that the African Continental Free Trade Area's historic potential will remain theoretical until the foundational infrastructure beneath it is made real. This is not a c