The Afro-Collective Think Tank
About the Afro-Collective Think Tank
Spearheading socio-economic change throughout Africa using thought-provoking, candid conversations with great African minds.
The Afro-Collective Think Tank is a platform for bold, meaningful African-led dialogue on the issues shaping our continent. Created by Femme Bantu Consulting under its CSI pillar, it exists to promote deeper understanding, stronger intra-African collaboration, and more intentional thinking around business, culture, leadership, identity, and development. Through candid roundtable conversations, the initiative brings together diverse voices from across Africa and the diaspora to challenge perspectives, share insight, and contribute to a more connected and prosperous future
Purpose
To promote intra-African trade and collaboration by bringing together different cultures, business leaders, and thought leaders in ways that deepen understanding, strengthen relationships, and encourage more meaningful African cooperation.
Vision
To build a network of African leaders across all sectors who are intentional, patriotic, and committed to protecting African resources, preserving African culture, and making decisions that create lasting wealth and prosperity on the continent.
Positioning Africa for global leadership.
Values
- Candor
- Respect
- Dignity
- Honor
- Integrity
- Pan-Africanism
Why This Conversation Matters
The African Continental Free Trade Area was signed in Kigali on 21 March 2018, bringing together 44 African states at launch and laying the foundation for the largest free trade area in the world by number of participating countries. Yet despite this progress, intra-African trade still sits at only around 15% to 16% of total African trade. So the question remains: why are Africans still not doing enough business with one another?
At Femme Bantu Consulting, we believe the challenge is not only economic. It is also historical, cultural, and relational. Africa’s colonial past did more than divide the continent with borders. It deepened mistrust, separation, and disconnection between people. Many of those divisions still show up today in the form of tribalism, disunity, and weak collaboration across African communities. This is FBC’s interpretation of why the trade gap remains so stubborn.
We believe Africa cannot build stronger economic bridges without first addressing the cultural gap between Africans. Real transformation requires dialogue. It requires spaces where we can speak honestly about history, business, identity, leadership, culture, and what it will take to build a more connected continent.
That is why the Afro-Collective Think Tank exists. It is one of the ways FBC expresses the kind of impact it cares about under CSI: creating thoughtful African-led conversations that can help move the continent toward greater trust, unity, and shared prosperity
Generational Wealth and the Failure of Black-Owned Family Business
Chapter 1 marked the inaugural roundtable discussion of the Afro-Collective Think Tank. It opened the platform with a powerful and necessary conversation on generational wealth, the structural and cultural challenges facing Black-owned family businesses, and the kinds of shifts required to build stronger legacies across African communities.
The discussion brought together accomplished voices from business, policy, entrepreneurship, development, and technology to reflect on ownership, succession, leadership, continuity, and the deeper issues that affect how wealth is built, protected, and transferred.
This first chapter set the tone for what the Afro-Collective Think Tank stands for: bold thinking, honest dialogue, and African-led conversations with practical value.
Featured Speakers – Chapter 1
Chapter 1 featured an exceptional panel of speakers from across Africa and the diaspora, bringing together expertise from entrepreneurship, governance, development finance, technology, education, consulting, and public affairs
Video Gallery
Explore the conversations from Chapter 1 through our video content. Watch the full roundtable, revisit key moments, and engage with speaker insights that continue to shape the dialogue around generational wealth, legacy, and African enterprise
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Upcoming Events
The Afro-Collective Think Tank is an evolving platform, with future chapters set to continue the conversation on the issues shaping Africa’s future. Each upcoming event will bring together a new mix of voices, ideas, and perspectives to explore themes that matter to the continent’s social, cultural, and economic development.
Whether you would like to attend, speak, or partner with us, we welcome your interest in being part of the dialogue.
Next chapter to be announced soon.
