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This paper focuses on Angola's reluctance to enter the Free Trade Area (FTA) of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The author identifies the economic and political drivers behind Angola’s decision to remain outside the FTA, despite the country being a signatory of the Protocol on Trade which determined that by 2012 all member states were supposed to have joined. She further assesses the impact non-accession has had on Angola's domestic economy and on the other member states within SADC.