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Tech in Ghana 2025
2025-12-04 - 2025-12-05
This unique edition of the highly respected Tech in Ghana conference shifts focus to the Ashanti Region, spotlighting the growing tech and innovation happening beyond the capital, Accra.
It’s an essential event for connecting with regional tech players, understanding grassroots innovation, and exploring opportunities in secondary cities.

Africa Bitcoin Conference
2025-12-03 - 2025-12-05
Every year, the Africa Bitcoin Conference brings together activists, innovators, and decision-makers to explore how Bitcoin safeguards fundamental freedoms, strengthens economic autonomy, and paves the way for lasting sovereignty.
Location: Caudan Arts Centre, Port Louis, Mauritius

SuperReturn Africa
2025-12-02 - 2025-12-04
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.

AfricArena Grand Summit
2025-12-02 - 2025-12-03
The climax of AfricArena’s year-long scouting program, the Grand Summit showcases the top startups from across the continent in front of an audience of global investors and corporates. It’s an energetic platform for witnessing pitch competitions and understanding the emerging themes and companies set to dominate the African tech landscape.

2025 Data Protection Africa Summit
2025-12-01 - 2025-12-04
Organized by the Africa Digital Rights Hub and the Data Protection Commission of Ghana, this is described as Africa’s largest gathering on the topic. It will include masterclasses, conference days, and high-level meetings for data controllers, regulators, and tech companies
Location: Accra, Ghana

Africa Startup Festival 2025
2025-11-28
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.

Digital Marketers' Conference 2025
2025-11-28
The Conference will feature an engaging lineup of panel discussions, keynotes, and interactive breakout sessions, focusing on the future of marketing in an AI-driven world.
Attendees will gain insights into data-driven marketing, SME growth strategies, and influencer engagement, alongside real-world case studies and peer learning experiences.
Location: Ghana, Accra

Africa Early Stage Investor Summit (AESIS)
2025-11-27 - 2025-11-28
Co-hosted by the African Business Angels Network (ABAN) and Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A), AESIS is the premier event specifically designed to connect early-stage investors with Africa’s most promising startup founders.
This is a high-density, high-impact summit if your goal is to raise or deploy capital in the seed and pre-Series A space.

Accra Lawtech Hangout 2025
2025-11-27
The Accra Lawtech Hangout is a networking event dedicated to exploring the intersection of law and technology in Ghana. Hosted by Legaltech Lounge, the annual event brings together lawyers, tech entrepreneurs, investors, and students.

Global Entrepreneurship Festival World
2025-11-21 - 2025-11-23
The Global Entrepreneurship Festival (#GEF), the world’s largest and one of the most transformative entrepreneurship events, is a global platform dedicated to celebrating and catalyzing entrepreneurship across different levels and sectors while advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through innovation, enterprise, creativity, technology and collaboration
Location: Accra, Ghana

Aké Arts & Book Festival 2025
2025-11-20 - 2025-11-22
Organised by the Book Buzz Foundation, Aké’s mission is to promote African creativity through literature, art, and critical dialogue, with its own publication, the Aké Review, amplifying new writing and voices. The theme for 2025, its 13th edition, is “Reclaiming Truth,” a call to confront misinformation, reclaim narrative agency, and champion the integrity of storytelling

Entertainment Week Africa
2025-11-18 - 2025-11-23
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.”

Lagos Fringe
2025-11-18 - 2025-11-23
Lagos Fringe is a platform for experimental and independent performance arts, born out of the city’s vibrant but often underrepresented creative edges. Though smaller and edgier than mainstream arts events, Fringe events consistently incubate new talent in theatre, multimedia, spoken word, and cross-genre expression.

West Africa Dreamin’ 2025
2025-11-15 | Movenpick, Ridge, Pmb Ct 343, Independence Ave, Accra, Accra, Ghana
West Africa Dreamin’ is the premier community conference for the Salesforce Trailblazer Community. It focuses on how Salesforce tools and platform innovations can be uniquely leveraged in West African contexts.

Women In Festival
2025-11-13 - 2025-11-14 | Women In Festival, 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.

Africa Tech Festival 2025
2025-11-13
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.

Ghana Digital & Innovation Week (GDIW)
2025-11-12 - 2025-11-14
GDIW is a nationwide series of events, jointly led by government, academia, and private sector stakeholders to showcase Ghana’s digital transformation journey and celebrate milestones in Ghana’s Digital Innovation Ecosystem.

Africa Blockchain Festival
2025-11-07
Africa Blockchain Festival 2025 is more than just a conference—it’s a movement. A gathering of Africa’s brightest minds, innovators, investors, and government leaders, all focused on unlocking blockchain’s transformative power for the continent.

ART X Lagos
2025-11-06 - 2025-11-09
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.

Accra Cultural Week 2025
2025-10-30 - 2025-11-03 | Gallery 1957, PMB 66 — Ministries Gamel Abdul Nasser Avenue Ridge — Accra, Accra, Ghana
From its inaugural iteration in 2023, Accra Cultural Week has quickly become a luminary event in Africa’s art calendar. Hosted and curated by Gallery 1957, Ghana’s leading contemporary art gallery and a cornerstone of the city’s dynamic creative ecosystem, the week-long program transforms Accra into a living gallery for all to experience.

For 2025, Gallery 1957 has announced that the celebration will return from 30 October to 3 November, reaffirming Accra’s growing reputation as one of the most exciting creative capitals in the world. Across multiple venues, exhibitions, studio visits, public talks, cultural tours, performances, and pop-up events animate the city, offering an intimate glimpse into Ghana’s thriving contemporary art scene and the global conversations it continues to inspire.

Lagos Fashion Week 2025
2025-10-29 - 2025-11-02
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.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria

AI Expo Africa 2025
2025-10-29 - 2025-10-31
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.

AfricArena Togo Summit
2025-10-29 - 2025-10-30
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.

Nigeria Energy
2025-10-28 - 2025-10-30
Now in its 12th edition, Nigeria Energy is widely considered the leading energy platform in West Africa. It brings together policymakers, project developers, utilities, and innovators to showcase sustainable energy solutions, infrastructure models, and cleantech innovations.

Design Week Lagos 2025
2025-10-23 - 2025-10-28
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.

Big Angels Day Africa
2025-10-23
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.

MWC Kigali 2025
2025-10-21 - 2025-10-23
Attend MWC Kigali and find out about key growth areas like mobile money and the evolution of AI. Learn how you can be part of Africa’s ongoing digital transformation and leave with fresh ideas, qualified business leads, and a wealth of knowledge to keep you one step ahead
Location: Kigali, Rwanda

ABAN Annual Congress
2025-10-17 - 2025-10-18
ABAN (the African Business Angel Network) was founded in 2015 by six pioneering angel groups and now spans 37 African countries with over 5,000 angels and 75+ member networks.
This year marks ABAN’s 10th anniversary, and the Congress will center on “Accelerating Local Capital Participation. Expect curated strategy labs, live pitch sessions from angel networks and syndicates, and a Gala Awards night honoring early-stage investment champions.

Nairobi Film Festival 2025
2025-10-16 - 2025-10-26
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.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Forum Création Africa
2025-10-16 - 2025-10-18
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.
