Africa Prosperity Network (APN), organisers of AfricaProsperity Dialogues (APD), in collaboration with Africa-America Institute (AAI), a premier U.S.-based international organisation dedicated to strengthening the human capacity of Africans, will jointly host the second edition of the Global Africa Forum (GAF) on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York City, United States of America. 

The Global African Forum serves as a platform for connecting the African continent with its diaspora to foster collaboration and take advantage of economic opportunities aligned with the African Union's Agenda 2063. 

The Forum will, among others, seek to connect the skills, technology, and financial investments of Global Africans to the development of key sectors, such as energy, health, education, housing, transportation, and digital infrastructure, on the African continent. 

“It will also seek to encourage global investments, including from Global African investors, to capitalise on Africa’s single market of 1.4 billion people as well as to encourage public-private partnerships for infrastructure projects that connect and integrate African markets,” a statement issued by the Communication Directorate, Africa Prosperity Network read.

The Global Africa Forum will also seek to unpack US-Africa economic policies that have the potential to create funding opportunities for large-scale infrastructure projects that will help to connect and integrate the African continent. 

The head of international relations at Africa Prosperity Network, Stephanie Diatta, said that “the Global Africa Forum is an important platform to connect people of African descent across the globe to economic opportunities in Africa as the African Union (AU) works on building a single market. 

"Hosting it in New York annually as a side event of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is convenient for mobilising interest and networking,” she added.

The maiden edition of the forum, held last year (2023), witnessed the launch of the Global Africa Network by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, with the support of notable personalities such as Ahunna Eziakonwa, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Director, Regional Bureau for Africa.

Others were Professor Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Afreximbank, Albert Muchanga, African Union (AU) Commissioner for Trade and Industry, and Wamkele Mene, Secretary General of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat in attendance.

The Global Africa Network has a clear objective to mobilise and connect Global Africans consisting of over 200 million people and their enterprises, to the all-important project of building the world’s largest single market through the AfCFTA.