Programme Agenda
Three Days of Dialogue, Reimagination and Action
Explore the programme for Africa at the Centre: Leading Change, Shifting Power. Select a day below to view the sessions, speakers and activities.
Remember and Locate
Building a shared picture of current realities
Build trust and create a shared understanding of the current development landscape by exploring its histories, realities and tensions.
Arrival, Welcome and Registration
Participant registration with music in the background and a visual welcome wall.
Guest Arrival in Plenary Hall
Background music in the main hall.
Opening Artistic Piece
Opening artistic performance featuring spoken word, music, short film, dance or live visual performance.
Welcome Remarks
Event host and partners welcome participants.
Pre-Note
Why Africa at the Centre, Why Now?
Grounding the Room
Who is here, and what are we carrying?
Tea / Coffee / Comfort Break
Find Your Circle
Participants form recurring home groups for reflection, sense-making and peer connection throughout the convening.
What Is Limiting African-Led Development from Thriving?
From receiving development to setting the terms
Networking Lunch
Artistic Reset
Spoken word performance by Scribes Global LBG.
Locating Current Realities
Participants return to their home groups and move into thematic rooms to explore the realities shaping African-led development.
Parallel Thematic Dialogues
Tea / Coffee / Comfort Break
Gallery Walk Across Dialogue Themes
Participants explore what emerged from the thematic rooms.
From Gallery Walk to Shared Sense-Making
Collective Sense-Making
What are we taking into Day 2?
Day 1 Closing
Networking and Dinner
Theme: The Africa We Are Becoming
Disrupt and Reimagine
Envisaging the Africa we want and are willing to help build
Imagine bold, practical alternatives for a future where Africa leads its own development agenda.
Arrival and Welcome
Opening Day 2: From Current Realities to Possibilities
Spoken word performance on the theme WAKE UP by Scribes Global LBG.
The Accra Reset Agenda: Agency, Sovereignty and Shared Value
What If Africa Sets the Terms?
A short interactive session encouraging imagination, creativity and fresh thinking.
Tea / Coffee / Comfort Break
Introducing the Disrupt and Reimagine Labs
Four Provocations: Questions for the Future
Four conversation starters explore the thematic areas of power, financing, institutions and mindsets/worldviews.
Disrupt and Reimagine Labs
Networking Lunch
What Is Emerging Across the Labs?
Participants visit outputs from labs they did not work on.
From Gallery Walk to Weaving Possibilities
Weaving Possibilities
Tea / Coffee / Comfort Break
From Principles to Action
Celebrating Civil Society Innovation
EPIC Africa CSO Awards
Day 2 Closing: Carrying the Work Forward
Youth at the Centre: The Future We Want
African Movie Night
Build and Steward
Strategising towards an emboldened future
Agree on shared commitments, leadership responsibilities and practical next steps to carry the work forward beyond the convening.
Diaspora Engagement
Arrival and Welcome
What Are We Carrying Forward?
Day 3 opens by drawing together key insights, principles and questions from Day 2 and moving from imagination into action.
Future-Ready Africa: Connecting Education, Civil Society, Policy and Industry
From Dialogue to Action
Ideas in Motion: Pitches for an Emboldened Future
Tea / Coffee / Comfort Break
What Can We Carry Forward?
Holding the Space: WACSI's Stewardship Role and Next Steps
Commitments and Collective Send-Off
Final reflections, appreciation, commitments and close of the convening.
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