In 2022, we launched Entertainment Week Lagos (EWL) as a response to a critical need: a structured platform to connect talent, investors, policymakers, and industry leaders across Africa’s creative economy. In just three editions, EWL became a hub for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and sectoral growth, drawing participants from music, film, television, fashion, technology, live production, and entrepreneurship.
The results proved a truth we already knew: Africa’s creative industries have the scale, influence, and talent to compete globally. What’s missing is the connective tissue, access to finance, infrastructure, policies, and cross-border markets that can sustain growth. Entertainment Week Africa (EWA) 2025 is the next step in closing that gap.
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Why EWA Matters
Africa’s creative economy is valued at billions of dollars, yet its contribution to GDP and job creation remains underrealized compared to its potential. Structural challenges, fragmented markets, funding shortfalls, weak intellectual property protections, and skills gaps, continue to limit growth.
EWA 2025 exists to address these barriers directly by providing:
A Pan-African Marketplace: Where investors meet creators, and where ideas are developed into viable businesses.
Policy and Infrastructure Engagement: Bringing together government, regulators, and industry to align on frameworks that enable scalable growth.
Capacity Development: Platforms for mentorship, upskilling, and career pathways that strengthen the workforce.
Global Connectivity: Linking African creativity to global markets, audiences, and capital.
The 2025 Theme: Close the Gap
“Close the Gap” is a directive for Africa’s entertainment and creative future. We aim to bridge the divides between:
Talent and Opportunity
Creativity and Capital
Local Industries and Global Markets
This is how Africa’s creative economy can evolve from fragmented success stories into a sustainable continental industry.
What to Expect at EWA 2025
From 18–23 November 2025 in Lagos, Nigeria, EWA will convene leaders across six priority sectors:
Music
Film & TV
AI & Technology
Fashion
Live Production
Entrepreneurship
Programming will include high-level conferences, expos, showcases, and networking platforms, such as:
EWA Content Festival
EWA Music Festival
EWA Fashion Festival
EWA AI & Tech Expo
EWA Live Production Expo
Creative Job Fair
A Mission Beyond Celebration
EWA is an economic intervention designed to accelerate growth across Africa’s creative value chain. By uniting investors, policymakers, business leaders, and creators, we are laying the foundation for an industry that is globally competitive, locally sustainable, and economically transformative.
Our goal is to unlock Africa’s creative potential and convert it into measurable growth — jobs, revenue, partnerships, and long-term value.
Lagos, Nigeria
18–23 November 2025
Theme: Close the Gap
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Join us in Lagos for the continent’s most strategic gathering on the future of entertainment and the creative economy.