Africa Creatives Alliance
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About Us

Africa Creatives Alliance (ACA) is a pan-African umbrella network advancing the development, integration, and global competitiveness of Africa’s creative and cultural industries through a coalition of partners and members. We work across government, development, investment, and ecosystem institutions to activate the creative economy as a driver of economic growth, job creation, trade, and cultural influence.

Vision

A resilient, inclusive, and investment-ready African creative economy

Where creativity drives economic growth, social change, and continental cultural leadership.

Mission

To catalyse and coordinate Africa's creative ecosystems

By convening stakeholders, unlocking investment, shaping policy, and building capacity to position creativity as a driver of sustainable development.

Strategic Function

Our Role in the Creative Economy

We convene, coordinate, and drive the delivery of Africa's creative economy :

Translate

Creative economy priorities into executable strategies and scalable interventions

Strengthen

The intermediaries and institutions that drive ecosystem delivery

Generate

Evidence, frameworks, and tools that inform policy, investment, and execution

Align

Policy, capital, and markets through structured platforms and strategic convenings

Our Strategic Pillars

Our Strategic Pillars anchor our approach to building and delivering Africa's creative ecosystems

Ecosystem Building & Convening

Connect hubs, intermediaries, and ecosystem actors across public and private sectors to enable coordinated delivery

Policy influence & Evidence-Based Advocacy

Generate and apply evidence to shape policy and support the translation of mandates into implementation

Intermediary & Ecosystem Capacity Building

Strengthen the capabilities of intermediaries and ecosystem actors to drive delivery, learning, and long-term sustainability

Infrastructure & Investment Facilitation

Strengthen investment pipelines through intermediaries and enable the alignment of capital, markets and distribution across the ecosystem

Our Network

Who We Work With

National and sub-national governments

Development agencies, foundations, and development finance institutions (DFIs)

Private sector investors, corporates, and financial institutions

Creative economy institutions and intermediaries, including hubs, incubators, accelerators, and makerspaces

Universities, academia, and research institutions

Regulators, statutory bodies, and standards-setting institutions

Regional and continental platforms and multilateral organizations

Leadership Team

Board of Directors