1. Foreign Aid

Are foreign aid decreases just a setback, or can they catalyse more resilient, self-sustaining growth across the continent?

 2. African Economy & Politics

How are some African countries countering the recruitment of youth as cheap labor and the resource curse to build more sustainable, local, and effective jobs? 

 3. Global opportunities for Africans

How are African countries drawing on local commitment and knowledge to build strong, productive industries that will help them to prosper in the new global economy? 

 4. Trade and investments

Can African countries leverage the AI revolution and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to break dependency cycles without compromising their sovereignty and stability? 

 5. Media and Information

How can Africans counter the rise of deep propaganda, ‘theatrical elections,’ and digital authoritarian practices constructing narratives of international legitimacy while shaping, limiting, or distorting domestic political agency? 

 6. Education & Technology

How can African universities and schools both promote ethics and responsibility in data collection and protect community knowledge from data colonialism by foreign tech giants? 

 7. Global Cooperation & Peacebuilding

Can global cooperation frameworks support African nations in negotiating trade agreements collectively to promote equitable partnerships, strengthen regional integration, and ensure mutual economic benefits across regions? 

 8. Governance & Policy strategy

How can African countries promote investment and address the primary ‘analog’ gap of basic computer literacy and rural electrification? 

 9. Agriculture

Can Africa’s agriculture thrive from local knowledge, safeguards for its farmers, and careful, not top-down, use of international technological innovation? 

 10. Health 

How can African countries strengthen local health capacity and address outbreaks such as malaria?

 11. Immigration

How are communities in Colorado valuing and protecting our African and other immigrant communities?

 12. Arts

How are the arts helping to strengthen awareness of the deep values and cultural traditions of Africa that value and change our understanding of humanity?

13. Sports

What are the opportunities to strengthen and build exchange through sports?

14. Environment

In what ways are African communities leading and innovating in efforts to preserve biodiversity and restructure more sustainable and green economies?

15. Water

How are African communities building clean water access while addressing the growing challenges to water supply?

16. Women’s Empowerment in Africa