Connecting Global Africans to Africa’s Growth Opportunities
The Africa Prosperity Network’s mandate for a prosperous Africa is reflected in its contributions to collaborations that deliver bankable projects across the continent. The Global Africa Forum serves as a platform for connecting the skills, technology, and financial resources of Global Africans with the development of critical sectors across the continent, including energy, health, education, housing, transportation, and digital infrastructure. By fostering collaboration, the Forum aims to attract global investments, particularly from Global African investors, to unlock the potential of Africa’s single market, home to 1.4 billion people.
Objectives of the Forum
Encouraging global investments, including from the Global African community, to capitalise on Africa’s single market and its 1.4 billion-strong consumer base
Linking the skills, technology, and financial investments of Global Africans to the development of key sectors such as energy, health, education, housing, transportation, and digital infrastructure
Promoting public-private partnerships for infrastructure projects that connect and integrate African markets
Advancing the reparations agenda to fund large-scale infrastructural projects that connect Africa with its diaspora
Global Africa Forum 2024
The 2024 Forum focused on four key areas to scale up investment in Africa’s infrastructure: pooling global investments, leveraging diaspora investments, utilising reparations to fund major projects, and making public-private partnerships (PPPs) more attractive to investors.
Curated under the theme “Mobilising Global African Investment for Africa’s Infrastructural Needs,” the 2024 Global Africa Forum was aligned with the theme of APD 2025, which focuses on infrastructure development for a seamless and prosperous Africa.
Curated under the theme “Mobilising Global African Investment for Africa’s Infrastructural Needs,” the 2024 Global Africa Forum was aligned with the theme of APD 2025, which focuses on infrastructure development for a seamless and prosperous Africa.
Global Africa Forum 2023
The inaugural Forum, held in 2023, marked a milestone with the launch of the Global Africa Network. Themed *“Mobilising Global Africa Investment to Boost Intra-African Trade,”* the initiative was spearheaded by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, with the support of key leaders including Ahunna Eziakonwa (UN Assistant Secretary-General), Professor Benedict Oramah (President of Afreximbank), Albert Muchanga (AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry), and Wamkele Mene (AfCFTA Secretary-General)