INNOVATION

Check out upcoming and past presenters from AFRIKIN Innovation.

Check out our Youtube Tech & Innovation playlist to gain some insight into what to expect at the AFRIKIN Innovation Consortium.

The AFRIKIN Innovation Consortium views the universe through the eyes of the creative mind. With invited entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders in thought, we examine the genius born of necessity throughout the past four centuries – the ways in which innovation was the key to survival and advancement and how it has contributed to African Futurism and today’s newly established sphere of Afrofuturism.

Being able to perceive movements in the marketplace ahead of growth and peaks in trends, and then using that information to identify elements that will be relevant, is what determines which content links to our platform.  Our unique perspective as ‘kin’ to folk, fringe, indigenous, mainstream, outsider and street culture enables us to connect audiences to what is lacking in the marketplace and connect advertisers, patrons and sponsors to new audiences.

AFRIKIN invites participation by trailblazers and forward-thinking up-and-comers who have a presence in the marketplace, have identified gaps in the market and developed solutions that will grow market shares.  Our access to innovative artists, craftspersons, scholars and thinkers is based on relationships spanning the various stratum of society, and thorough knowledge of the streets.

The AFRIKIN aesthetic includes ways that our community’s traditional financial planning (sousou, lottery, etc) can be translated to today’s venture capitalism, disruptors like industry powerhouse CEEK VR, Zimbabwe’s Liquid Telecom’s plans to install fiber optic infrastructure linking up Central and West Africa, and Nigeria’s OneWattSolar -a clean energy outfit allowing thousands of Africans to pay for solar energy through cryptocurrency without paying for the infrastructure itself. AFRIKIN is privy to the best-kept secrets of our innovation and technological advances across the Diaspora, and we unleash this information to educate and empower everyone our brothers and sisters.

AFRIKIN has been supported by grassroots communities.  The dynamic culture of the streets has shown us a living process and mechanism for the creation and gathering of content.  Our innovation lies in building bridges for the connecting of worlds, through the creation of pathways from a diverse group of entrepreneurs of all ages and backgrounds, to investors who need to reach an audience that they don’t yet understand.

Check out our Youtube Tech & Innovation playlist to gain some insight into what to expect at the AFRIKIN Innovation Consortium.