Africa in Colors

04/02/2026

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31/01/2026

Test 1,2 … 1,2

What if we could be in a better place? A better city?

What if could be a driving force for our communities countries’ economies?

Well…

We got a quick announcement to make.

We are on. We are back.

More info loading soon for our annual rendez-vous.

Stay tuned!

28/10/2025

Reflection on our concluded 2025 investment forum

Dive into day 2

Panel theme: Unlocking Investment for Creative Industries in Africa

Speakers

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And moderated by Yacine Simpore from Kerewa Partners

Key highlights of the panel

1. Current progress and challenges - ‘s industries have made significant strides, generating USD 31B in revenues in 2023

2. Financing gaps & investor perspectives - an urgent need to drive more small ticket investments that can generate a wide local economic impact (e.g a $1 concert ticket potentially driving $12 in local economic activity)

3. Policy & ecosystem support - urgency to create policies and regulatory frameworks that reflects realities, enabling environments with clear incentives, i protection, and better integration into trade systems

4. Regional & global opportunities - entertainment ecosystems present high-growth opportunities for African to connect with global audiences, and the African remains a key connector for African creatives to connect to global markets

5. Education &capacity building - training, mentorship, and entreprise support structures are needed to prepare creatives for investment opportunities

6. Collaboration & future pathways - Collaboration across stakeholders is crucial to unlock investment and opportunities. There is a need for patient, strategic, and context-specific investments that balance economic returns with cultural value.

This dynamic panel discussed concrete solutions to market challenges, and we believe with their vision and work of each of the institutions they represent, it is possible we come up with a more sustainable CCI ecosystem, where thrive.

We look forward to more, even greater achievements for 2026.

21/10/2025

Reflection on our last concluded forum

Dive into day 2

Presentation by Uyoyo Edosio, i-DICE case study

I-DICE is a Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) Program to promote investment in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Creative Industries.

The program will empower 175,000 founders in , 270 creative enterprises and startups supported to access business development services.

This program size is a $617.7M, financed by and

This innovative financing could be a program many countries could replicate to finance local creatives,

We thank our partner, the African Development Bank for sharing this important program with us, and we look forward to keep the collaboration to find best practices, innovative financial instruments, to finance the

See you all in 2026.

16/10/2025

Reflection on our last concluded forum.

Dive into day 2:

Panel theme: Creative industries for Africa’s sustainable development goals

Our contributors’ highlights :

Fatimata Lovetta Sesay - Resident Representative in Rwanda

- Founder of (Rwanda)

Abdoulaye Konate: visual Artist and acting chair of (Mali)

CCIs are not part of the goals, SDGs. However, representative highlighted that they are crosscutting.

The conversation key points:

Financial and investment gaps - stronger partnerships, private and public partnerships would unlock more, better, and innovative financial solutions

Policy and governance - the urgency to adopt new policies that protects African creatives, traditional cultural expressions, and that empowers local creatives.

Education and storytelling - Urgency to reinforce our education systems and platforms to amplify Africa’s stories, and cultural richness.

Sustainability and livelihoods - beyond economic growth, the sector must ensure decent work, living wages, and supportive environments for artists and cultural workers.

Infrastructure and market access - private and public investment are urgent and critical in developing required infrastructures to ensure local talents growth, access, and a more strong creative economy.

Community and partnerships - there is a need for better platforms enabling the ecosystem to flourish, where creatives, entrepreneurs, policymakers, artists, collaborate, for collective actions, increase the floor for patient investment, and more importantly,’solutions that are locally tailored.

15/09/2025

Dive into Day II with us.

Spotlight on our opening remarks.

In his opening remarks, , the Permanent Secretary , emphasized on the importance of this platform for ’s growth, coming in at a pivotal moment for the continent, where creative talents are abundant but access to finance remains a major barrier.

“This is more than just meetings, but an investment rendez-vous, opportunity to exchange ideas, forge new partnerships, and take action”.

is more than ever committed to advance the culture and creative industries, creating favorable environments to attract more investments, ultimately, putting in place environments that favors creative growth, creation of jobs and monetary values for creative entrepreneurs and artists.

This commitment and urgency is seen further in the new Rwanda’s National Strategy for Transformation (NST2).

We, at Africa in colors are fully committed to keep partnering with the Ministry to achieve these goals, push for more collaborations across the continent, and as AIC, keep facilitating access to markets, opportunities, and working with various partners and stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to facilitate access to finance for those in the space.

Stay tuned…

12/09/2025

Now more than ever, the continent is working together to find solutions, to advance the CCIs on the continent, to change the narratives.

We, at Africa in Colors, each year, focuses on creating a platform where key stakeholders, pioneers of industries, decision makers, gather together to learn from each other, share best practices, and more importantly, reimagine future possibilities, from collaboration, to mobility, to to building favorable business environments, to creating new narratives.

This year was even better, for our network, the creative communities around, the host country, and the future of CCI ecosystem on the continent.

Key financial institutions, leaders of industries, private and public sector, financial institutions, investment firms, investors, came together to reimagine how we mobilize more financing for Africa’s creative industries, public and private funding, and how we create environments to attract more private funding in Africa’s CCIs, as well as access to finance for African creatives.

This gathering hosted by AIC and co hosted by was an opportunity to learn about various funding opportunities available on the continent, ‘s investment opportunities, public private partnerships that can unlock more funding for these industries, and finally, our respective roles in creating better environments for on the continent to thrive.

This platform explores further new avenues for more impact, reimagining new financial instruments that can work for African creatives, drive innovation across our cities and countries, and fuel creativity on the continent.

A great appreciation to all stakeholders, participants, for being part of this platform, sharing their knowledge and their best practices.

We are optimistic about future possibilities through this platform and potential discussions happening around.

This was our first day of the forum.

Stay tuned for more.

09/09/2025

It’s a wrap!

We have promised to deliver a great, and important platform on the continent, that gathers together policy makers, decision makers, private sector, investors, entrepreneurs, creatives, and artists, to reimagine financing creative industries on the continent, and easy access to finance for creators, creatives, entrepreneurs in the CCI space, artists.

We DID JUST THAT!

Join us on a journey to discover more on what we achieved with our people, dreamers, and doers from across the globe that gathered in

First, as our culture at AIC oblige, we always start with recognizing and appreciating those who came through for us.

Let’s start with our main partners, those who believed in us for the past 5 years, 4 editions of our annual gathering.

The government of Rwanda through and

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Through this platform, the one we envisioned a year ago, we were honored to host 24 countries, entrepreneurs, creatives, artists, investors, investment firms, financial institutions,multilateral organizations, and the public sector.

Putting this together requires dedication, more importantly, support from people and institutions, that understand the vision, the risk, and the hard work that goes into this kind of project.

A special appreciation to our core team and partners, support system, many being on our side for all our previous editions:











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Last but not least, the entire team at AIC for sleepless nights, each and every one of you who attended and contributed to various conversations, business deals, happening or in the pipeline, and to the future of AIC as an enabling platform for the CCI ecosystem and its practitioners.

Why this platform? Up next…

Join us at that seat to discover all that, and more on our plans post forum and the gathering we are dreaming of for next year.

04/09/2025

29/08/2025

As Day 2 of the came to a close, participants reflected on the powerful conversations and insights shared over the past sessions.

The final part of the day underscored one key message: collaboration, innovation, and sustainable investment are essential to unlocking the full potential of Africa’s creative industries.

The journey doesn’t end here; it’s only the beginning of building a stronger Pan-African creative economy.