Arterial Network - Africa's leading creative and cultural economy network, has wrapped up their third biannual conference. The British Council's CCE team supported two impressive participants from the UK to join the proceedings -

Ade Solanke and Makeda Coaston

Be sure to check out:

UK delegate Ade Solanke's blog and presentation - What can the Diaspora contribute to the African Creative Economy?

UK delegate Makeda Coaston's blog.

Mike van Graan - Arterial Network Secretary General's presentation - The creative economy, development, culture, human rights and democracy

Other papers and programme details, including biographies of speakers, etc., can be found here.

DEC.4-7th, NAIROBI, KENYA

Arterial Network's Continental Conference on the African Creative Economy

The first African Creative Economy Conference is now over, and the real work starts here in moving forwards with everything we’ve talked about. There’s been so much great insight into the arts sector as it is today in Africa and numerous recommendations for how we can build a sustainable creative economy sector with the right priorities for the region.

The conference was also a great chance to build relationships and make connections between countries and regions, and across all areas of the arts. As Joy Mboya said in her closing speech – even if you don’t make that call for a few months, you know that when the opportunity arises,  there’s that contact in a certain country who you can now call on!

A big thanks to everyone for your contribution and effort in making it such a great conference.