Building Africa's
Multigenerational
Enterprises

Who We Are

Championing the Continent's Family Enterprises

The Africa Family Business Summit (AFBS) is a platform and community dedicated to the continuity, governance and growth of African family businesses. We bring together owners, successors, next-generation leaders and trusted advisors — from agriculture to finance to healthcare, across generations of ownership — around one enduring question: how do we honour what we have inherited while building something fit for what comes next?

Through our flagship Summit, year-round Family Enterprise Conversations, and the AFBS Network membership community, we help families turn tradition into a competitive advantage and succession into a discipline — so that African enterprises endure for generations.

What We Do

Three Ways We Strengthen Family Enterprise

From a flagship gathering to year-round learning and a permanent community, AFBS supports African families at every stage of the succession journey.

The Summit

Our flagship annual gathering brings together family business owners, successors and advisors from across the continent for two days of governance, succession and next-generation leadership.

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Family Enterprise Conversations

Year-round webinars and peer sessions where families and experts tackle the real questions of continuity — conflict, governance, mental health and growth capital.

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The AFBS Network

Our membership community — a permanent, continent-wide platform for family enterprises to keep learning, connecting and building legacy together, all year long.

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Our Journey

Editions That Are Growing Family Enterprise Across Africa

Every edition of the Summit has widened the circle — bringing more families, more countries and more generations into one movement for continuity, governance and growth.

AFBS 2022 · Accra

The early gatherings that put family-business continuity on Africa's agenda — and started a community.

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AFBS 2023 · Accra

Deeper conversations on governance and succession, as more families joined from across the region.

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AFBS 2024 · Lagos

Next-generation leaders and seasoned owners learning side by side, turning hard questions into frameworks.

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AFBS 2025 · Accra

A continent-wide cohort in Accra — peer learning that became lasting cross-border partnerships.

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AFBS 2026 · Accra

Our largest edition yet — 231 participants and 126 family businesses from 12 countries, gathered in Accra.

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Year on year, AFBS has helped African families turn tradition into competitive advantage and succession into a discipline — strengthening enterprises built to endure for generations.

AFBS Network Membership

Why Join the
AFBS Network?

Building an enterprise that outlives its founder is one of the hardest journeys in business — and one families too often walk alone. The AFBS Network exists so you don't have to.

Membership connects you to a continent-wide community of families facing the same questions of succession, governance and growth — with year-round access to the expertise, peers and partnerships that turn tradition into a lasting competitive advantage.

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Stay Rooted. Keep Growing.

Community & Peer Learning

Connect with family business owners across Africa who understand your journey.

Knowledge & Research

Curated insights and expert-led sessions on governance, succession and growth.

Strategic Partnerships

Build relationships with advisors, institutions and next-generation leaders.

Summit & Event Access

Priority access to the Summit, FEC webinars and member-only events all year.

What the Summit Delivers

Impact is not the same as attendance. Across every edition of AFBS, the measure is what delegates leave with that they did not arrive with — in knowledge, in relationships, in resolve, and in belonging.

Knowledge & Perspective.
Delegates left with frameworks, not just inspiration — governance as the architecture of continuity, conflict as managed growth, the mechanics of succession, responsible AI adoption, private-equity financing, and mental health in the enterprise.

Connections & Network Effects.
Few settings put 126 family enterprises from 12 countries in one room. Structured networking and role-based breakouts turned proximity into genuine connection — peer cohorts facing the same inheritance, the same governance questions, the same succession timelines, across borders that rarely meet.

Decisions & Commitments.
The most valuable outcomes travel home — delegates left intending to start the succession conversation they had postponed, formalise governance through a family council or constitution, bring the next generation into decision-making, or explore growth capital on their own terms.

A Room Built for Continuity.
55% of those present were second-generation and 37% first-generation — the very people making succession and governance decisions right now. Not a room of observers, but of decision-makers at the precise moment decisions are being made.

Belonging & a Movement.
For many family businesses the summit ended not with a goodbye but with a membership — the launch of the AFBS Network turned two days of insight into a year-round community of African family enterprise, committed to building legacy together.

Our Faculty

Speakers Over The Years

Across every edition, AFBS has convened world-class voices in family enterprise — owners, advisors, researchers and next-generation leaders from across Africa and beyond.