The ABC Community
The Seven Communities of ABC
These are the seven sectoral communities that guide our work.
1. AFS
Agriculture & Food Security
Africa holds 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land and yet imports more than $90 billion in food every year. The AFS Community exists to close that gap, not as a development ambition, but as a commercial and investment imperative. ABC aggregates the full agricultural value chain: input suppliers, smallholder networks, agritech platforms, food processors, commodity exchanges, agricultural financiers, logistics operators, and export market gatekeepers. It is the community where Africa’s food security crisis becomes a structured conversation about capital, infrastructure, and policy, and where the deals, partnerships, and commitments that can change the continent’s food story are forged.
2. BIC
Banking, Investments & Capital
Capital is the foundation of everything Africa is trying to build. The BIC Community brings together the architects of the continent’s financial system, central bankers, commercial bank CEOs, development finance institutions, asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies, investment banks, brokers, regulators, and capital market operators, to interrogate where African capital is flowing, where it is not, and what it will take to change that. BIC is the community where recapitalisation strategies are shaped, cross-border investment frameworks are debated, and the financing of Africa’s infrastructure and agricultural transformation is unlocked. It is where the next generation of financial sector partnerships across the continent begin.
3. BSG
BSG - Business Environment, Social & Governance
Africa’s economic transformation cannot be separated from the quality of its business environment and the integrity of its institutions. The BSG Community addresses the conditions that determine whether growth is sustainable, inclusive, and investable: regulatory frameworks that enable enterprise rather than obstruct it; social systems that build the human capital businesses depend on; and governance standards, at the corporate, institutional, and public sector level, that inspire confidence and protect the gains of growth. ABC aggregates the business environment reformers, corporate governance leaders, social impact investors, civil society organisations, ESG-committed capital allocators, and policymakers driving the accountability and institutional quality that Africa’s businesses need to thrive at scale.
4. FIT
Fintech, Innovation and Technology
Africa is not waiting for the world’s technology playbook, it is writing its own. From mobile money to satellite connectivity, from AI-driven credit scoring to drone logistics, the continent is producing homegrown innovations that are leapfrogging legacy infrastructure and reshaping how businesses operate and how people access services. The FIT Community aggregates the builders, investors, regulators, and adopters of Africa’s technology ecosystem, exploring the policies enabling innovation, the capital funding it, and the cross-sector applications transforming agriculture, healthcare, trade, and finance. FIT is where Africa’s digital economy finds its voice at the highest levels of business and policy leadership.
5. JET
Jobs, Economy & Trade
Africa’s economies will grow when Africa’s businesses grow, and Africa’s businesses will grow when the conditions for job creation, enterprise, and trade are deliberately built and fiercely protected. The JET Community provides the broadest and most foundational platform within ABC: rigorous engagement on macroeconomic policy, fiscal frameworks, monetary conditions, trade architecture, and the labour market dynamics that determine whether growth is inclusive or extractive. ABC aggregates finance ministers, central bank governors, trade commissioners, industry associations, economists, and enterprise leaders to track, interrogate, and accelerate the economic transformation that makes everything else possible.
6. PIE
PIE - Power, Infrastructure & Energy
Infrastructure is not a background condition for Africa’s growth, it is the decisive variable. The continent faces an annual infrastructure financing gap of $68–108 billion. Transport costs add up to 75% to the price of African goods. Six hundred million people lack reliable electricity. Until these gaps are closed, every other ambition on the continent faces a structural ceiling. The PIE Community aggregates power generators, transmission and distribution operators, metering companies, renewable energy developers, road and rail constructors, port and airport operators, logistics providers, real estate developers, infrastructure financiers, and the policymakers who shape the regulatory environment that governs all of it. PIE is where Africa’s infrastructure ambition meets its capital reality.
7. TES
Tourism, Entertainment & Sports
Africa’s creative and cultural economy is one of the fastest-growing and most underestimated sectors on the continent. Tourism contributes over $168 billion to Africa’s GDP annually. The African entertainment industry is generating global cultural influence at unprecedented scale, with Nigerian Afrobeats, Nollywood, and East African creative exports commanding audiences and investment from London to Los Angeles. Africa’s sports economy is at a similar inflection point: from stadium infrastructure and sports academies to broadcasting rights, athlete representation, and the fast-growing world of fan engagement and sports commerce. The TES Community recognises that culture, creativity, and entertainment are central to Africa’s economic story. They drive tourism receipts, attract foreign direct investment, create employment for millions of young Africans, and project the continent’s identity onto the world stage in ways that formal diplomacy cannot. ABC aggregates tourism boards and hospitality investors, entertainment executives and content creators, sports federations and franchise owners, media companies and rights holders, brand marketers, and cultural entrepreneurs, building the business architecture around Africa’s most powerful soft power assets and unlocking the investment that will scale them.