About AFAA
The African Fashion and Arts Award (AFAA) is a Pan-African platform committed to connecting Africa through fashion, arts, culture, creativity, collaboration, and enterprise while creating opportunities that inspire innovation, visibility, trade, tourism, and sustainable growth across the continent.
THE AFAA 2026 THEME
Driven by the vision of a more united and creatively empowered Africa, AFAA serves as a bridge between creatives, brands, institutions, governments, investors, cultural stakeholders, and global audiences who believe in the power of African creativity as a tool for development, identity, and economic transformation. Our mission is to celebrate excellence, promote collaboration, and unlock opportunities for African talents and industries, while our theme remains clear
“Africa Beyond Borders: Unifying Creativity, Unlocking Opportunities”
CREATIVES OPPORTUNITIES
Beyond recognition and celebration, AFAA creates an ecosystem where creatives and businesses can connect with opportunities that extend across industries and borders. Through the platform, fashion designers, artists, photographers, models, filmmakers, cultural practitioners, creative entrepreneurs, brands, tourism boards, government agencies, development institutions, and corporate organizations gain access to visibility, partnerships, networking, market expansion, cultural exchange, investment opportunities, and meaningful continental engagement.
Mission
AFAA’s mission is to reward and celebrate fashion and art creatives, encouraging both established and emerging Africans in the sector towards capacity building for self-reliance, and overall improvement of the African continent’s GDP growth and employment opportunities.
Afaa Mantra
U“Connecting Africa while rewarding and celebrating creativity”
Vision
To see the African fashion and arts sector become a global focus, promoting African designs and crafts to a global audience, promoting African cities, boosting tourism, and enhancing intra-African trade and business relationships.
FASHION AND ARTS CONFERENCE
Engage in high-level conversations shaping the future of Africa’s creative economy through fashion, arts, culture, policy, innovation, tourism, and cross-border collaboration.
AWARDS
Engage in high-level conversations shaping the future of Africa’s creative economy through fashion, arts, culture, policy, innovation, tourism, and cross-border collaboration.
EXHIBITION
Discover creative showcases, innovative brands, artistic expressions, cultural products, and business opportunities from across Africa in one vibrant space.
This is not just a trade fair, but a curated experience for networking, access and intra-African trade and business relationships.
FASHION RUNWAY SHOWCASE
Represent your country on the runway and showcase your craft as we experience bold African creativity, emerging trends, designer collections, cultural storytelling, and world-class models runway presentations from across the continent.
JOIN AFAA TO EXPLORE ABIDJAN, CÔTE D’IVOIRE
Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the beauty, culture, hospitality, tourism, creativity, music, food, beach fronts, lifestyle and vibrant ecosystem of Côte d’Ivoire with the most vibrant community through curated AFAA experiences and city tours in Abidjan.
AFAA MAGAZINE 2026 EDITION: “UMOJA BY AFAA”
Discover creative showcases, innovative brands, artistic expressions, cultural products, and business opportunities from across Africa in one vibrant space.
This is not just a trade fair, but a curated experience for networking, access and intra-African trade and business relationships.
SPONSORSHIP AND PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Discover creative showcases, innovative brands, artistic expressions, cultural products, and business opportunities from across Africa in one vibrant space.
This is not just a trade fair, but a curated experience for networking, access and intra-African trade and business relationships.
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AFAA is committed to driving economic development through fashion and arts, creating opportunities and platforms for emerging fashion entrepreneurs, creative visual artists, models, writers, poets, photographers, graphic designers, sculptors, podcasters, and more.
The impact of African youth on the continent’s cultural and economic landscape can not be overstated. With their creative talents and entrepreneurial spirit, they have helped to promote African culture and diversity, creating employment opportunities and generating revenue for the continent.
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