Theme: “Africa’s Response to Tariff Wars:
Building a Prosperous, Integrated Continent Beyond Aid”
The Global Africa Forum (GAF), convening on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, unites African leaders, organisational heads, private sector investors and innovators, and Global Africans to accelerate regional integration for shared prosperity. This high-level dialogue will foster innovative financing, strengthen trade networks, and harmonise policies to build a resilient, globally competitive African economy.
The Global Africa Forum 2025 will highlight the proposal of the ‘Dollar-A-Day’ initiative, which suggests a Pan-African infrastructure fund, mobilising over 50 million Africans and Pan-Africans on the continent and beyond to contribute to creating an innovative AfCFTA-backed resource pool to finance the urgent development of some of the major infrastructural projects, like energy, rail and roads necessary to connect and integrate the continent.
AfCFTA- uniting 1.5 billion people – aims to create a unified market by cutting tariffs and investing in cross-border infrastructure. Projections show Africa’s consumer base reaching 1.73 billion by 2030, with spending reaching US$2.5 trillion by then. With accelerated implementation, Africa can rewrite its economic future, and to do so requires greater, direct involvement of all able people of African descent and international investors who believe in the prospects of Africa’s single market and the opportunities that can be created from empowering the world’s fastest-growing consumer base.
Global disruptions are Africa’s wake-up call.
To achieve “Africa Beyond Aid,” we must:
Build regional value chains to insulate economies from external shocks.
Deploy climate-resilient infrastructure and digital trade solutions.
Agitate the consciousness of Africa’s 350 million-plus middle class and Global Africans
Develop and present bankable, key cross-border projects for fundraising.
