Mike Dada, AFRIMA Founder, Appointed Vice President Of African Collaborations Group

African Collaborations Group( ACG), the leading tactical task origination and cooperation platform concentrated on the industrialisation of sport in Africa through the origination of bankable sport and home entertainment district communities, has actually revealed the consultation of Mike Dada to its Advisory Board.

Mr Dada is President and Founder of the All Africa Music Awards(AFRIMA), the continent’s flagship music awards platform, developed in 2014 in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC)to commemorate, reward and promote African music internationally in pursuit of continental combination, financial success and cultural diplomacy. AFRIMA is transmitted reside in more than 84 nations worldwide, assembles artists, delegates and production groups from every area of Africa, and has actually turned into one of the most crucial continental facilities for the African music market.

Together With AFRIMA, Mr Dada functions as Vice President of the African Union’s Pan-African Congress, in which capability he led the advancement of the AU’s Plan of Action on Culture and Creative Industries– a landmark continental policy file embraced by the African Union Heads of State Summit in 2023 as the structure assisting the industrialisation of Africa’s cultural and innovative economy. He is likewise a member of the Africa Policy Advisory Board (APAB) for the ONE Campaign, adding to international policy engagement on African advancement concerns.

His consultation to the ACG Advisory Board combines the platform’s fundamental dedication to dealing with sport and home entertainment as an incorporated community from the start. Where AFRIMA has actually developed the continental facilities through which African music reaches an international audience, and where the AU Plan of Action on Culture and Creative Industries supplies the policy structure for the industrialisation of Africa’s imaginative economy at Heads of State level, ACG is coming from the physical and monetary environments– the sport and home entertainment districts– in which that imaginative economy can be produced, staged, monetised and experienced at continental scale.

Mr Dada’s existence on the Advisory Board guarantees that ACG’s work is lined up with the continent’s greatest institutional structures for cultural and innovative market advancement, and linked to the pan-African music market network that AFRIMA has actually assembled over more than a years.

His visit gives the ACG Advisory Board an unusual mix of continental cultural management, institutional and policy positioning at the greatest level of African Union governance, deep pan-African market relationships throughout the music and imaginative economy sectors, and the expert know-how of a legal representative and innovative economy professional– abilities straight pertinent to coming from and structuring massive sport and home entertainment district tasks throughout the African continent.

“Mike Dada gives our Advisory Board an unusual mix of continental cultural facilities management and Heads of State-level policy positioning. Through AFRIMA, he has actually developed among the most crucial continental cultural facilities Africa has, and through his management at the AU Pan-African Congress, he has actually formed the really policy structure that guides the industrialisation of Africa’s imaginative economy at Heads of State level. That mix– business facilities and continental policy management– is precisely what ACG requires as we come from bankable sport and home entertainment district communities throughout the African continent, jobs that need to be lined up with the continent’s greatest institutional cultural programs and linked to the market networks that will bring them to life. His existence on our Advisory Board is an authentic tactical property,” stated Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, Founder and Executive Chairman of ACG.

The ACG Advisory Board supplies tactical assistance as ACG comes from and structures massive sport and home entertainment district jobs throughout the continent, lining up federal governments, advancement financing organizations (DFIs), financiers, sport bodies and facilities partners to support the advancement of economically sustainable, mixed-use district communities.

Africa’s sport economy is predicted to reach $20 billion by 2035, yet the continent continues to do not have the incorporated district communities needed to support massive advancement. ACG addresses this space by coming from bankable sport and home entertainment district jobs, moving beyond single-venue advancement designs towards mixed-use, revenue-generating and economically sustainable district environments.

Through its collective design, ACG assembles federal governments, PPP authorities and regulators, advancement financing organizations, personal financiers, designers, designers and engineers, legal and deal consultants, operators, sport federations and leagues, occasion promoters, media and broadcast partners, scholastic organizations and host neighborhoods, producing structured paths from idea to expediency, bankability and shipment.