非洲大陆的第一个工业自由区建于七十年代上半期。现在,工业自由区已在五个非洲国家(加纳、利比里亚、毛里求斯、摩洛哥与塞内加尔)发挥作用或处于形成阶段。1974年4月,塞内加尔公布了关于建立达喀尔工业自由区的法令。塞内加尔政府建立这个自由区,是为了吸引外国投资者建设以广泛利用当地劳动力为基础生产出口产品的大型工 The first industrial free zone in the continent was built in the first half of the seventies. The Industrial Free Zone is now functioning or at a formative stage in five African countries (Ghana, Liberia, Mauritius, Morocco and Senegal). In April 1974, Senegal published a decree on the establishment of an industrial free zone in Dakar. The Senegalese government set up this free zone to attract foreign investors to build large-scale workers based on extensive use of the local labor force to produce export products