Designed with young Africans — not just for them.
Africa We Want exists because the conversation about Africa's future is richer, more honest and more useful when the people who will inherit that future are actually in the room.
To give young Africans — on the continent and in the diaspora — a powerful, permanent platform to voice the future they imagine, connect with the people who can help build it, and develop the skills to make it real.
An Africa where young people don't just inherit the future — they actively shape it.
Why Africa We Want exists.
Africa is home to the world's youngest population. By 2050, one in four people on earth will be African. The questions that will define the century — about climate, democracy, technology, equality — will be answered on this continent.
Yet in the rooms where those answers are being shaped, young Africans are too rarely present. Africa We Want changes that. We build the platform, the stage, and the skills that put young Africans into those conversations — as speakers, thinkers and builders, not as the subject of someone else's agenda.
Three programmes, one purpose: Voices of Tomorrow gives young people the stage to speak; Africa Dialogues puts them in conversation with leaders and innovators; Future Citizens Africa gives them the tools to act.
Vision to Impact Foundation
Africa We Want is an initiative of Vision to Impact Foundation, a registered charity committed to making positive change through education, empowerment and community.
Registered in Ghana. Registration number: [TBC — to confirm].
What we've done so far.
Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals
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Every participant is safe here.
Our commitment
- Speakers and participants under 18 are supported with guardian consent — including consent for filming and photography.
- Consent for filming and the use of names and images is obtained for all participants.
- We have a named safeguarding lead. Any concern can be reported directly to them.
- All data is handled in line with UK data protection law (UK GDPR).
- Our full safeguarding policy is available as a PDF.