Connecting Global Africans to Africa’s Growth Opportunities
The Africa Prosperity Network, through its mandate for a prosperous Africa, often collaborates with strategic partners, like the Africa-America Institute (AAI), to deliver impactful projects that advance the continent’s development. The Global Africa Forum serves as a dynamic platform to connect the skills, technology, and financial resources of Global Africans with critical sectors such as energy, health, education, housing, transportation, and digital infrastructure. This partnership aims to unlock the potential of Africa’s single market, home to 1.4 billion people, by attracting global investments and facilitating innovative collaborations.
Through the partnership with AAI, the Forum leverages its expertise in education, leadership development, and international engagement to strengthen the bridge between Africa and its diaspora.
Objectives of the Forum
Linking the skills, technology, and financial investments of Global Africans, with support from AAI, to the development of key sectors such as energy, health, education, housing, transportation, and digital infrastructure.
Encouraging global investments, including from the Global African community, to capitalise on Africa’s single market and its 1.4 billion-strong consumer base.
Promoting public-private partnerships for infrastructure projects that connect and integrate African markets.
Global Africa Forum 2025
Convened under the theme “Africa’s Response to Tariff Wars: Building a Prosperous, Integrated Continent Beyond Aid,” the Global Africa Forum (GAF) 2025 served as a critical high-level dialogue for shaping a collective African position in the face of rising global protectionism and shifting trade dynamics.
Held in New York on September 22, 2025, the forum brought together government officials from Africa, senior USA government officials, heads of institutions, private sector leaders, and prominent figures from Global Africa.
The forum called for an accelerated and robust implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as the continent’s most strategic response to external economic pressures. Participants identified the current global climate not as a threat, but as a historic wake-up call and opportunity to pivot from aid dependency to self-sustaining, trade-led prosperity. The discussions underscored the urgent need to mobilise Africa’s vast internal resources, including its projected 1.7 billion-strong consumer market and its growing middle class.
Global Africa Forum 2024
The 2024 Forum built on this mission by focusing on four key areas: pooling global investments, leveraging diaspora contributions, utilising reparations to fund transformative projects, and enhancing public-private partnerships (PPPs) to attract investors. The partnership with AAI added critical value by offering thought leadership, capacity building, and access to an extensive network of diaspora professionals and institutions.
Curated under the theme “Mobilising Global African Investment for Africa’s Infrastructural Needs,” the 2024 Forum aligned with the Africa Prosperity Dialogue 2025 which focuses on infrastructure development for a seamless and prosperous Africa. AAI’s commitment to fostering education and leadership played a central role in shaping discussions and delivering actionable outcomes.
Global Africa Forum 2023
The inaugural Forum in 2023 marked a milestone with the launch of the Global Africa Network. Themed “Mobilising Global Africa Investment to Boost Intra-African Trade,” this groundbreaking initiative was led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, with support from global leaders such as 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).
As a key partner, AAI was instrumental in connecting African and diaspora leaders to the initiative, strengthening the Forum’s ability to mobilise investments and foster impactful collaborations.