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What is Africa House?

Africa House is a gathering place for leaders and a driver of African futures.

We believe that to go far, we must go together, and our goal is to build momentum, mobilize investment, and improve lived experience across the African continent.

Whether in our home city Accra, at the World Economic Forum in Davos or the UN General Assembly in New York, Africa House thoughtfully assembles a diverse set of perspectives - turning conversation in to meaningful coalition.

  • We create safe, high-trust spaces for critical conversations

  • We mobilise capital and drive innovation.

  • We gather leaders and facilitate exchange.

  • We build the systems that make action possible.

  • We shape ideas and amplify Africa’s voice.

Africa House organizes its work around Seven Futures that shape long-term African agency, growth, and resilience.

  • Frontier Technology

    AI, digital identity, cloud infrastructure, payments, telecoms, cybersecurity, health data, land registries, and education platforms will increasingly define state capacity and economic competitiveness.

    Technology is central to productivity, sovereignty, security, competitiveness, and participation in rule-setting, not just adoption.

  • Trade & Investment

    Capital flows, entrepreneurship, private-sector growth, regional integration, innovative finance, and the shift from fragmented markets and commodity dependence toward value addition and global integration.

    Africa’s trade integration will shape supply chains, food security, green industrialisation, commodity markets, and the next geography of manufacturing.

  • Environment & Energy

    Solar, geothermal, hydro, green hydrogen, mini-grids, clean cooking, climate-smart agriculture, carbon markets, biodiversity finance, water infrastructure, and local processing of critical minerals—Africa’s energy transition will shape global emissions, critical minerals, biodiversity, food systems, migration, and climate resilience.

    Ironically, Africa has contributed least to the climate crisis but may face some of its hardest consequences. Yet it also holds many of the resources needed for the global clean-energy transition.

  • Governance & Trust

    Regulatory sandboxes, digital public infrastructure, procurement transparency, public-sector leadership academies, cross-border standards, AI governance, fintech licensing, anti-corruption tech, civic trust platforms, and regional governance compacts.

    ‍The world needs Africa to be institutionally strong because weak governance does not stay local. It affects migration systems, investment risk, climate adaptation, mineral supply chains, cybercrime, public health, peacekeeping, food security, and geopolitical alignment.

  • Human Capital

    Africa’s projected population of 4.3 billion by 2100 could make it the world’s largest reservoir of talent, but only if education, institutional reform, and coordinated action convert demographic growth into capability.

    ‍The future global workforce, care economy, innovation base, consumer class, migrant labour system, and entrepreneurial engine will increasingly depend on African talent.

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  • Lived Experience

    Africa’s urbanisation is one of the biggest physical transformations happening on earth. The AU notes Africa’s urban population is projected to double by 2050, reaching around 1.2 billion, with cities absorbing an additional 600 million people.

    If African cities work, they become engines of growth, culture, manufacturing, climate adaptation, and innovation. If they fail, the result is congestion, informal settlements, fragile labour markets, health risk, unrest, and migration pressure.

  • Culture & Identity

    African culture already shapes global music, fashion, film, sport, language, aesthetics, spirituality, food, and youth identity. But cultural influence does not automatically mean cultural ownership.

    ‍Creative IP registries, royalty infrastructure, African-owned distribution networks, film/music/fashion investment vehicles, cultural tourism, diaspora markets, museums, festivals, gaming, animation, publishing, and narrative diplomacy—all of these are needed to transform narrative power into soft power, tourism, diplomacy, and market value.‍

Why Serious Actors

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Access to decision-makers

Alignment with Pan-African priorities

Introductions that move toward outcomes

Visibility in high-trust environments

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7+

years

of global convenings

2000+

leaders

convened annually

150+

sessions

curated

50+

countries

represented

$1.8bn

AUM

in our rooms

Convenings that Count

Every year Africa House hosts the minds that are changing the future of the continent in the rooms where decisions are made

UN General Assembly

Alongside the UN General Assembly, Africa House convened the African Digital Futures Summit — a high-level gathering focused on decisions. Bringing together ministers, entrepreneurs, regulators and investors, the summit turned Africa’s digital future into a practical agenda: closing the compute gap, formalising the continent’s creative economy, building sports industries at home, and advancing digital sovereignty through capital, governance and infrastructure.

Across conversations on creative economies, sports transformation, digital sovereignty, and capital and compute, one message cut through: Africa cannot inherit a future designed elsewhere. It must build the systems, institutions and value chains that allow its talent, data, culture and intelligence to belong to the continent.

September 2025 | New York City

World Economic Forum

At Davos 2026, Africa House turned the mountain from a place where Africa is discussed into a room where Africa sets the terms. Against a backdrop of fractured global systems, Africa House created one of the week’s most urgent convening spaces: packed rooms, bold debates, music, warmth, and the unmistakable sense that the continent is no longer willing to remain a side conversation in global affairs.

Under the unofficial banner of the “Roadmap to Wakanda,” the programme reframed Africa not as the “Global South,” but as the Global Majority: 1.4 billion people, critical minerals, youthful talent, creative intelligence, entrepreneurial capital, and the capacity to leapfrog legacy models.

Conversations moved from narrative to infrastructure: local mineral transformation, Agentic AI, African language models, energy access, diaspora-backed cities, family capital, tokenised assets, and AfCFTA-enabled continental trade.

In a Davos obsessed with the collapse of the old order, Africa House offered something rarer: a living blueprint for the next one.

January 2026 | Davos

UNGA 2026

After convening bold conversations across Davos and New York, Africa House will once again gather leaders, investors, policymakers, founders, creatives and global partners during UNGA week for a series of private dinners, intimate salons and high-level convenings.

We are creating rooms where trust is built, ideas are sharpened, capital meets consequence, and Africa’s role in the global future is discussed with the people positioned to shape it.

Watch this space.
For invitations, partnerships or more information, please contact Africa House.

September 2026 | New York City

Beyond Convenings

The Pan-Africanist Papers are a growing body of thought leadership, verified reference material, and best practices, released quarterly to the community, to further equip leaders, builders, and institutions with the insight needed to shape Africa’s future with greater clarity, ambition, and consequence.

Meet the Minds

Shanthi Annan

Shanthi Annan leads Africa House as a platform for African agency, global convening and future-facing action. Under her leadership, Africa House has grown from its Davos origins into a convening space designed to ensure Africa does not inherit a future designed by others, but helps shape its own destiny in real time.

CEO

Mamadou Toure

Mamadou Kwidjim Touré is a Cameroonian entrepreneur, investor and systems-builder. A founder of Ubuntu Group and Africa 2.0 Foundation, he has spent his career advancing African self-reliance, innovation and continental transformation. As Co-Founder of Africa House, he helps shape its bold convening vision: turning African possibility into infrastructure, influence and action.

Co-Founder
Chairman

Kojo Annan

Kojo Annan is a Ghanaian-Nigerian entrepreneur whose work focuses on enterprise and Africa’s next generation. He founded Africa10, a social enterprise focused on youth development through sport and education, and brings to Africa House a long-standing commitment to unlocking African potential through platforms that connect influence with opportunity.

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