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Objective: This study aims to determine the economic and social importance of industry, to discuss and propose sustainable sectoral and spatial industrial development strategies in Africa, and the future of integrated spatial development in Africa in light of sustainable industrialization. Methodology: The study benefited from institutional approach, case study approach, Friedman’s core-periphery model. Conclusion: The study concluded that the manufacturing industries are of great relative importance in the economies of South Africa, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia respectively. Lack of financing, weak of infrastructure, communication and information technology, political instability and civil war are behind the failure of industrial development strategies in Africa. The study monitored some experiences and lessons of industrial development in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Morocco, regional production networks in South Africa, and proposed cross-border special economic zones between Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, and Ghana specialized in cocoa production. These are successful models that can be built upon and generalized in other African countries. The study also concluded large possibility of self-sufficiency in vegetable oils, petroleum derivatives, iron, steel and cement in Africa.
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