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    • The Cloth, one of the African fashion designers who exhibited at the Tranoï, Tokyo show
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African Designers Take Center Stage at Tranoï Tokyo through CANEX Initiative

CANEX Presents Africa provides emerging fashion designers with a platform for development through the transfer of skills, linkages and partnerships as well as market access opportunities

The vibrant spirit of African fashion took centre stage at the inaugural Tranoï Tokyo trade show on September 4-5, where 10 exceptional fashion brands from across Africa and the diaspora showcased their designs as part of Afreximbank’s CANEX Presents Africa initiative (www.Afreximbank.com). Among the African brands that featured at Tranoï…

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Afreximbank and The Africa Center in New York Announce the Launch of the Afreximbank Africa Diaspora Center During the 2024 Future Africa Forum

Policy-focused initiative to bridge information, opportunity, and investment gaps within the African Diaspora leading towards a more prosperous African future under the platform of Global Africa

The Africa Center and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.AfreximBank.com) have announced the upcoming launch of the Afreximbank Africa Diaspora Center (AADC), a groundbreaking initiative that will help bridge the gap between Africans on the continent and the African Diaspora, and the African continent. AADC will serve as an institutional gateway that…

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    • Afreximbank’s Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) Announces the Release of Groundbreaking Extended Play (EP)
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Afreximbank’s Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) Announces the Release of Groundbreaking Extended Play (EP) "One Drum"

"One Drum" is a celebration of the cultural ties that unite Africa and its diaspora, forged through the shared history of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

The Marley family, Scorpion Kings, Sofiya Nzau, Flavour, and Olodum unite on Groundbreaking EP “One Drum”; This initiative is under the auspices of CANEX Creations Incorporated which seeks to support the commercialization of IP assets. African Export – Import Bank (Afreximbank) through its Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) Programme is thrilled to…

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    • CANEX WKND 2023 (L-R): Tade Ipadeola (Poet and Writer, Event Anchor), Anwuli Ojogwu (Managing Director, Narrative Landscape Press), Dr Eghosa Imasuen (Co-Founder, Narrative Landscape Press), Professor Benedict Oramah (Afreximbank President), Mrs Kanayo Awani (Executive Vice-President, Intra-African Trade & Export Development at Afreximbank), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Novelist and Creative Director of the James and Grace Adichie Foundation), Mrs Chinelo Oramah, and Mr Stephen Kauma, (Group Managing Director, Human Resources at Afreximbank)
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Creative Africa Nexus Weekend (CANEX WKND) 2024: Uniting Global Africa's Creative and Cultural Industries in Algiers

his groundbreaking event is scheduled to take place from October 16-19, 2024, at SAFEX in Algiers, Algeria

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com), in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, and the Government of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, proudly announces the return of the Creative Africa Nexus Weekend (CANEX WKND) 2024. This groundbreaking event is scheduled to…

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    • CAAG members with Afreximbank staff during the first meeting of the reconstituted Advisory Group on 9 July 2024 in Cairo, Egypt
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Afreximbank reconstitutes its Creative Africa Advisory Group ahead of CANEX Weekend

This group oversees and provides guidance for implementing the Bank’s Creative Africa Nexus Programme

Ahead of the upcoming CANEX Weekend in Algiers, Algeria, from 16 to 19 October, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) has announced the reconstitution of the Creative Africa Advisory Group (CAAG). This group oversees and provides guidance for implementing the Bank’s Creative Africa Nexus Programme. The first meeting of the reconstituted…

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Afreximbank announces launch of CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa

Priority will be given to books printed and produced on the African continent as well as to books published in indigenous African languages

Afreximbank (www.Afreximbank.com) has officially announced the launch of the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa, a partnership between the CANEX Book Factory and the Narrative Landscape Press Limited. The CANEX Book Factory, a key intervention under the CANEX programme, aims to promote a vibrant literary culture across Global Africa and encourage…

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Afreximbank launches African gastronomy and culinary arts programme

The introduction of the programme would help to refocus continental efforts towards local food production to ensure food security, reduce high food costs and imports and minimise the impact of external shocks on Africa’s food supply chain

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) today in Cairo launched an African Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Programme under its Creative Africa Nexus Initiative (CANEX). Launched during the third Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2023), the CANEX African Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Programme is the newest vertical within the CANEX programme and featured…

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    • Mrs. Kanayo Awani, Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade Bank, Afreximbank delivering her opening statement
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Afreximbank announces $1-billion African Film Fund

Mrs. Awani said that the fund would oversee film financing, co-finance with large studios, finance African filmmakers and finance producers and directors of film projects across the continent

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) is working on the establishment of a $1-billion African Film Fund to be launched in 2024 to support the continent’s film industry, Kanayo Awani, Executive Vice President, Intra-African Trade Bank, at Afreximbank, announced in Cairo today. Addressing the opening of the 2023 CANEX Summit held…