Register for Africa Week UK 2026

Africa Week UK opens the way Africans welcome guests — at the table. Hosted by Adonko at Gold Coast Bar & Restaurant, Welcome Night gathers delegates, diaspora leaders, investors, diplomats and creatives for an evening of food, music and conversation. It sets the tone for a fortnight built on relationships: the introductions made over a shared plate tonight become the partnerships pursued in boardrooms and forums over the days that follow.

African enterprise is already woven into London’s economy — in its kitchens, shopfronts, studios and offices. Spotlight on Africa takes delegates out of the conference hall and into African-owned businesses across the city, from food and fashion to finance and professional services. Each visit is a real-world case study: founders share how they built for the UK market, what it takes to scale, and where they see the next opportunities with the continent.

Africans and Caribbeans in Britain share history, neighbourhoods and ambition — yet the relationship has not always been simple. Beyond Bloodlines, hosted by The Africa Guide with a special presentation on Remit2Invest, is a candid online conversation about what connects the two communities, what still divides them, and how shared identity can become shared enterprise: in travel, trade, investment and culture. It speaks directly to the growing ambition for stronger Africa–Caribbean travel and business links.

Film, music, fashion, design and digital content are some of Africa’s most visible exports — and London is one of their biggest stages. Hosted at Shell’s London head office with Remit2Invest, this dialogue puts creative founders face-to-face with corporates, funders and policy voices around one practical question: what does it take to turn creative talent into businesses that can raise capital, protect their IP, reach global audiences and grow?

Diplomacy sets the terms on which people, goods and capital move. The Diplomatic Panel brings High Commissioners and senior diplomats together to discuss how African missions in London can turn bilateral goodwill into working pipelines — visa facilitation, air connectivity, investment promotion and delivery of the AfCFTA. Held before a small invited audience and broadcast live on Omega TV UK, the conversation reaches well beyond the room to viewers across the UK and Africa.

The African Continental Free Trade Area has redrawn the continent’s trade map on paper; the Market Access Forum is about making it work in practice. At Croydon Town Hall, exporters, investors, trade bodies and UK businesses unpack how to enter, source from and scale across African markets — and how UK firms can plug into continental value chains. The day moves from policy to pipeline, with specific opportunities and named institutions rather than general country pitches.

On the last day of Black History Month, Africa Week takes the continent to one of the world’s busiest shopping streets. Led in partnership with the AfCFTA, the Heritage Vault is a public pop-up of African heritage, craft, fashion, art and destination storytelling on Oxford Street. It treats tourism and heritage as what they truly are — living, investable exports — and invites shoppers, families and visitors to discover, taste, buy and start planning their own journey to Africa.

How a country is seen shapes who visits, who invests and who buys. On the eve of World Travel Market London, the Country Branding Forum brings destination marketers, communications leaders, tourism authorities and investment agencies together at Edelman Africa to examine how African nations build, protect and sell their reputation globally. Case studies from destination and diaspora-homecoming campaigns anchor a frank discussion about narrative, trust and measurable results.

Africa Week UK closes where every conversation must eventually arrive — with capital. Hosted by anchor partner Ghana International Bank at Regina House, the Investors Meeting brings investors, financiers and development partners together with a curated pipeline of opportunities surfaced across the fortnight: tourism and hospitality, creative industries, trade and green enterprise. It is built for decisions rather than speeches, with presentable projects, named sponsors and structured follow-up — and it ends by unveiling the theme for Africa Week UK 2027.