AfCFTA Secretary-General, Mr. Wamkele Mene, go lead this year PMI Global Summit Series wey go happen for Cape Town, South Africa, from September 14 to 15, 2026.
The event, wey Project Management Institute (PMI) sub-Saharan Africa dey host, go bring together leaders from government, development finance, energy, tech, and infrastructure.
The theme na “Africa Delivers M.O.R.E. Together.”
According to organisers, Africa integration go depend on how continent connect markets, move goods and people, power economies, and make business cross border easier.
“Behind all of this na the ability to deliver — to get the right institutions, skills, and project capability to turn continental ambition into real progress,” them talk for statement.
The summit go move from policy to practice, with leaders dey tackle Africa most critical delivery challenges.
Dem go focus on Energy, Digital Trade, Infrastructure, and AI & the Future.
Eskom chair, Mteto Nyathi, go lead conversation on how to deliver reliable energy access to power growth.
Flutterwave founder and CEO, Olugbenga Agboola, go address the financial and digital systems wey needed to unlock AfCFTA.
Zutari Head of Projects, Willem Botha, go examine projects wey go build more connected, borderless continent.
For inside tech side, Cassava Technologies CEO for South Africa and Botswana, Ziaad Suleman, go lead session wey dem call “Building Africa’s Own AI Future”.
E go be case study on how Africa fit move from just dey consume AI to dey build am.
Other big names wey go join include Karin van Rooyen of PM.Ideas and Sabrina Walter, founder of Women For Change and TIME 100 Most Influential Person of 2026.
PMI sub-Saharan Africa Managing Director, George Asamani, talk say: “Africa no dey short of ambition.
You fit see am for Agenda 2063 and for national development visions across continent.
Wetin matter now na delivery.
We dey bring together people with real experience of delivering complex projects to share wetin dey work, wetin no dey work, and wetin dem go do differently.
We want professionals to leave Cape Town with practical approaches wey dem fit apply immediately.
That na wetin Africa Delivers M.O.R.E. Together dey about.”
Another high-level panel, “The African Integration Story: Progress, Partnership, and Possibility”, go feature Dagmawit Moges Bekele from African Union Commission, Rudi Dicks from Presidency of South Africa, and Dr. Matthew Prempeh, former Minister for Ghana.
Armand Nzeyimana from African Development Bank (AfDB) go moderate.
Dere also go be session on “Establishing and Strengthening PMOs in the Public Sector”, wey delivery chiefs from Kenya, Uganda, Cape Town and SARS go share how governments dey build machinery to turn policy and budgets into results.
PMO expert Americo Pinto go moderate.
Asamani add say: “Project management na ultimately about closing the distance between wetin we talk say we wan achieve and wetin people actually experience.
Delivery na wetin turn plans into progress.”
The Cape Town Summit dey build on last year successful gathering for Kigali, wey gather more than 1,000 project professionals and government officials.
