$2bn Afreximbank fund targets Africa’s creative economy as CANEX opens in Lagos

By Elizabeth Onyogha
Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) WKND 2026 opened in Lagos yesterday, bringing together leading creatives, investors, policymakers, business leaders and cultural figures from across Africa and the diaspora to explore investment, financing and commercial opportunities in the continent’s creative economy.
Hosted by the Federal Government of Nigeria and organised by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) through its Creative Africa Nexus programme, the four-day event runs from November 5 to 8 under the theme, “One People, United in Culture, Creating for the World.” The programme covers film and television, music, fashion, sport, literature and publishing, gastrono...