Today, we’re launching our events calendar page, which gives users a glimpse of upcoming events in Africa.
From fashion shows to tech conferences, our event calendar captures a range of interesting events across the continent for eventgoers to mark on their calendars.
Our Events page is now live here
Here are a couple of events to note :
Forum Création Africa
- Date: October 16th – 18th, 2025
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
After its first edition held in Paris in 2023, the leading platform for African creative industries is coming to Lagos for its first edition on African soil. Led by MansA (Maison des Mondes Africains) and backed by AFD, Bpifrance, Business France, and Institut français, the French initiative works to foster dialogue, drive co-production, and establish sustainable partnerships between Africa and Europe.
This event is essential for policymakers, entrepreneurs, artists, cultural leaders, investors, and development professionals working to build innovative and sustainable collaboration across African and European markets.
Design Week Lagos 2025
- Date: October 23rd – 28th, 2025
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Design Week Lagos 2025 (DWL), West Africa’s leading design festival, returns to celebrate the best of African design, culture, and innovation. DWL is widely recognized as a force for raising African design on the global stage.
Founded by Titi Ogufere, DWL transforms Lagos into a sprawling creative canvas with shows in architecture, product design, interiors, and culture, fostering regional design collaboration and global attention.
As a tech or creative professional, this festival is a vital space to engage with the intersection of technology, product design, and cultural aesthetics, providing inspiration and essential connections for UX/UI designers, product teams, and creatives looking to integrate tech into their work.
From product to architecture, DWL 2025 is a feast of creativity that inspires tech founders and creatives alike.
Lagos Fashion Week
- Date: October 29th, 2025
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
As one of Africa’s most influential style platforms, Lagos Fashion Week returns to celebrate the creativity, craftsmanship, and culture shaping the continent’s fashion future.
From bold runway presentations to sustainability-focused talks and designer showcases, this year’s edition spotlights innovation, inclusivity, and the growing global influence of African fashion. A must-attend for designers, buyers, media, and style enthusiasts looking to experience where heritage meets contemporary design.
ART X Lagos
- Date: November 6th – 9th, 2025
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Celebrating its 10th edition, West Africa’s largest contemporary art fair returns to showcase the vibrant and diverse works of African and diaspora artists. Founded in 2016 by Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, ART X Lagos has grown into West Africa’s most influential contemporary art fair.
The fair combines gallery exhibitions, talks, music performances (ART X Live!), film screenings, and special commissions to generate a multidimensional cultural experience.
For creatives, tech leaders, and those active in the creator economy, ART X is a deep dive into Africa’s cultural soft power, tapping into the continent’s cultural zeitgeist, exploring opportunities in the Creator Economy, digital art, and meeting the storytellers who define the continent’s soft power.
Entertainment Week Africa
- Date: November 18th – 23rd, 2025
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
This November, Lagos becomes the stage where Africa’s most dynamic storytellers, creators, and cultural pioneers meet. Entertainment Week Africa, the continent’s flagship gathering for the creative economy, returns with a bold mission: to “Close the Gap.”
By connecting talent with capital, and ideas with influence, the week-long event aims to accelerate collaboration and reshape the continent’s creative future. If you’re invested in Africa’s creative future, this is where you need to be.
Africa Startup Festival
- Date: November 28th, 2025
- Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Recognized as Africa’s top deal-making and networking event, the Africa Startup Festival brings together investors, founders, builders, and operators in one powerful end-of-year gathering.
It’s the definitive platform to explore how emerging technologies are transforming industries and to finalize the partnerships and deals that will define the strategic direction of 2026. In its most recent edition, it drew over 3,000 participants from 15+ countries, founders, investors, and operators converging in Lagos.
AfriLabs
- Date: October 13th – 15th, 2025
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Organized by AfriLabs, the pan-African network of tech and innovation hubs launched in 2011, the AfriLabs Annual Gathering has grown from a small hub meetup into Africa’s preeminent innovation summit, representing over 500 hubs in 53 countries.
Now entering its 10th edition, this milestone gathering is co-hosted with UNDP’s Timbuktoo initiative in 2025, under the theme “Africa’s Innovation Future: Policy, Partnerships & Progress.”
If you’re shaping ecosystems, building hubs, or scaling startups, this is the forum where insights convert to action and regional networks find momentum.
Expect seven deeply curated tracks covering regulation, climate, data, creative economies, inclusion, and hub sustainability. Previous editions have drawn thousands of innovators, ecosystem leaders, and policy makers from across the continent.
Nairobi Film Festival
- Date: October 13th – 15th, 2025
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
A cornerstone of East Africa’s cultural scene, the Nairobi Film Festival has become a key fixture on the continent’s creative calendar, spotlighting the bold voices shaping African cinema today.
The festival brings together filmmakers, storytellers, and audiences to celebrate thought-provoking narratives and artistic innovation across genres.
With screenings, panel discussions, and networking sessions, it champions local and diaspora talent while positioning Nairobi as a rising hub for film and storytelling excellence in Africa.
Big Angels Day Africa
- Date: October 24th, 2025
- Location: Dakar, Senegal
Big Angels Day was established to spotlight angel investing across Francophone Africa and bridge gaps with the broader continental ecosystem. It serves as a dedicated forum where startups from Francophone markets pitch to local and cross-border angels, and investors explore growth opportunities in undercapitalized regions.
In recent editions, the event has been a launchpad for high-value deal flow and collaboration between investors from both Francophone and Anglophone Africa.
If you’re a founder or investor focused on scaling innovation across West and North Africa, attending this day in Dakar is crucial for bridging the Anglophone/Francophone capital divide.
AfricArena Togo Summit
- Date: October 29th – 30th, 2025
- Location: Lomé, Togo
AfricArena’s regional summits are known for scouting the next generation of tech talent and high-growth ventures. This event in Lomé offers a sharp focus on the emerging startup scene in Togo and the broader Francophone region, making it an excellent stop for investors and partners seeking to discover underserved and high-potential markets.
AI Expo Africa 2025
- Date: October 29th – 31st, 2025
- Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Now in its 8th year, AI Expo Africa is the largest business-focused Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and smart tech trade event on the continent.
This is the prime meeting place for enterprises, AI developers, and vendors to discuss real-world adoption of machine learning, making it essential for Deep Tech founders and corporate innovators.
Africa Tech Festival
- Date: November 10th – 13th, 2025
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
This massive gathering, encompassing both AfricaCom (connectivity and telecoms) and AfricaTech (enterprise technology and digital services), is one of the continent’s most enduring and impactful tech events.
It offers a global forum to address challenges and showcase solutions that deliver real-world impact for African businesses and consumers, drawing major players from the telco, media, and digital services sectors.
In its 2024 edition, over 15,000 attendees, 300+ speakers, and 200+ exhibitors converged in Cape Town to explore how technologies like connectivity, AI, and infrastructure are shaping sectors from finance to healthcare.
For founders, telco innovators, policy makers, and enterprise leaders, Africa Tech Festival is where continent-scale roadmaps are drawn, partnerships are sealed, and emerging tech trends take off.
Women In Festival
- Date: November 13th – 14th, 2025
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
The WomenIN Festival is the flagship gathering of the WomenIN (WiN) movement, hosted by VUKA Group. In 2025, the theme is “LIMITLESS: NO LABELS. NO LIMITS. NO APOLOGIES”, a bold call for women to defy conventions, lead with authenticity, and expand what’s possible.
This year’s lineup includes 100+ powerhouse speakers from industries across tech, energy, creativity, policy, and social impact, with immersive masterclasses, a dynamic activation floor spotlighting women-led enterprises, the “Warrior Women Awards,” and co-events like a GBV (gender-based violence) workshop.
For founders, creatives, and changemakers, WomenIN is a platform for building networks, amplifying purpose, and engaging with the conversations that will shape more equitable, inclusive industries across Africa.
SuperReturn Africa
- Date: December 2nd – 4th, 2025
- Location: Cape Town, South Africa
SuperReturn Africa is a top-tier private capital event, bringing together leading global and local private equity and venture capital investors. Past editions have generated over 13,000 one-on-one meetings, featured closed-door LP/GP forums, workshops on alternative fund structures, and spotlight sessions on IP & creative sectors.
Recent years have expanded the agenda to include themes like private credit, infrastructure, creative IP, and sustainability to reflect evolving investment priorities in Africa. If you’re monitoring how institutional capital flows into Africa, or aiming to break into the higher-tier investment space, SuperReturn is where strategy, scale, and capital converge.
For General Partners (GPs) looking to secure funding from Limited Partners (LPs), and for founders tracking large-scale investment trends, this gathering offers crucial insights into the future of institutional capital deployment across the continent.
