At the 126th National Business League Conference, Africa Equity Group brought a practical focus to a defining opportunity: connecting Africa and its diaspora through capital, ownership and trust.
Africa’s investment potential raises a consequential question: how do we turn opportunity into lasting prosperity for African enterprises and the communities connected to them?
That question shaped Africa Equity Group’s participation in the 126th National Business League Conference in Atlanta.
On August 21–22, 2026, Osa Aihie, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, and Fabien Anthony, Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder, joined as featured speakers, bringing AEG’s perspective on the practical work of building investment relationships across Africa and the diaspora.
The founders were accompanied by Kimberly Nelson, CEO of the Global Africa Business Accelerator (GABA) Center and Dr. Ken L. Harris, 16th President and CEO of the National Business League.
Their session, “Pan-African Trade & Investment: Africa as the Largest Wealth Creation Opportunity of the 21st Century — Managing Capital, Risk & Trust Across Africa and the Diaspora,” explored how that ambition can translate into action.
The setting carried particular significance.
Founded by Booker T. Washington in Boston on August 23, 1900, as the National Negro Business League, today’s National Business League continues a longstanding mission of advancing Black enterprise and economic empowerment.
AEG’s roundtable brought that legacy into a contemporary conversation about African ownership, cross-border investment and shared prosperity.
Read about the League’s history.
AEG structured the discussion as a live working session around three questions:
- Capital and ownership: How can we mobilize investment while strengthening African ownership and ensuring African enterprises participate meaningfully in the value they create?
- Risk and understanding: How can we manage cross-border risk rigorously without allowing unfamiliarity to become a barrier to investment?
- Trust and continuity: How can relationships between Africa and its global diaspora become lasting infrastructure for trade, investment and shared prosperity?
Together, these questions framed a practical agenda: developing mechanisms for long-term collaboration and laying the groundwork for an ecosystem that connects African enterprise with diaspora capital, expertise and networks.
For AEG, Africa represents the defining wealth-creation opportunity of the 21st century.
Realizing that opportunity requires disciplined investment, strong local partnerships and structures that allow trust to support sustained commercial activity.
We were pleased to connect with African-American and wider diaspora investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers and institutions committed to moving from conversation to execution.
The ambition is to build relationships that endure beyond the conference—and support trade, investment and enterprise growth across the continent.
To explore collaboration on Pan-African trade and investment, connect with Africa Equity Group.
