Lagos is set to welcome a major cultural milestone this November as it plays host to the inaugural Entertainment Week Africa (EWA), a pan-African platform designed to unite leaders, innovators, and investors across the continent’s creative economy.

Scheduled for 18 to 23 November 2025, the six-day gathering marks the evolution of Entertainment Week Lagos into a broader continental showcase spanning music, film, fashion, sports, and creative enterprise.

Over the past three years, Entertainment Week Lagos emerged as one of Nigeria’s most influential cultural events, generating significant media value, boosting local economic activity, and drawing global attention to West Africa’s creative industries. Building on that foundation, EWA aims to become a flagship hub for Africa’s creative economy at large.

Organisers say the expanded platform will focus on three core pillars: industry development, investment, and global visibility. The programme will feature executive forums, policy roundtables, masterclasses, showcases, networking sessions, and dedicated deal rooms where creators, entrepreneurs, and investors can build cross-border partnerships.

“The ambition is to accelerate sector growth, unlock investment capital, and firmly integrate African creative industries into the global economy,” organisers stated.

The timing of the expansion is significant. Africa’s creative economy has been cited as one of the fastest-growing in the world, with streaming transforming film and music distribution, digital platforms enabling fashion labels to scale across borders, and governments beginning to view the sector as a strategic driver of economic diversification.

Stakeholders expected at the inaugural edition include artists, investors, policymakers, multinationals, distributors, media houses, and industry enablers from across Africa and the diaspora.

Entertainment Week Africa is convened by Livespot360, one of the continent’s leading creative solutions companies. The platform was first launched in 2022 as Entertainment Week Lagos, which quickly placed the city on the global creative calendar by attracting thousands of participants and catalysing international collaborations. Its rebrand and expansion into Entertainment Week Africa reflect both the scale of its ambition and the immense potential of Africa’s creative industries.

Registration for the event is now open via www.ewafrica.com.