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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. |
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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. |
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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. 
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. 
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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. 
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. |
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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. |
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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. 
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.” |
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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 |
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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. 
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. |
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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. 
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 |
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