We are the resilient and reliable bridge to a prosperous African future, turning infrastructure into an instrument for change.

Instrumental Infrastructure:

Consistently delivering fast and sustainable solutions to close the infrastructure gap and unleash Africa’s prosperity.

• Playing a developmental role to unlock the potential of Africa’s key sectors by finding solutions to the challenges of infrastructure investing – both real and perceived.
• Advancing the economic growth and industrialisation of the continent, helping to transform lives.

Instrumental Africa:

Elevating Africa’s instrumental role as an engine of growth in a changing world

• As a supplier of beneficiated resources, goods and services.
• As the primary source of metals and minerals for the global energy transition.
• With the largest, youngest workforce and consumer class.
• A continent that delivers superior returns that often exceed other emerging markets.
• A continent that is taking its rightful place on the world stage.
• Read more about our Approach and our right-fit solutions for the continent.

Read more about our Approach and our right-fit solutions for the continent.

We are building a strong and resilient future for Africa through our focus on the 3Ps – our Partners, our People, and our Planet.

We harness our unique solutions-focused approach to realise our pan-African purpose and accelerate the transformative impact we make across these key dimensions:

Our Partners

Project Partners: We are the gateway - the bridge - for countries to solve their infrastructure challenges and strengthen their economies and export potentials. For the private sector we are a trusted and reliable partner to deliver the solutions and resilience to get projects done.

Funding Partners: We provide de-risked solutions that enable us to structure projects pragmatically for accelerated development impact, whilst delivering profitable returns for investors. AFC will continue to grow and diversify its capital base and funding sources for greater impact on Africa’s development trajectory.

Our People:

Our strength is our people. We are a high-performance institution, committed to supporting the career aspirations of our talented staff, so that through their rewarding work they can develop solutions and express their passion to develop the continent they love.

Our Planet:

From our contribution to climate proofing and resilient infrastructure, our renewable energy platform, our work on energy transition metals and large forestry reserves, we are a credible solutions provider for solving Africa’s urgent climate challenge.

We are solutions providers:

Our reputation for producing innovative solutions sets us apart and defines our brand as a reliable, purpose-driven fund manager. It cuts across the 3 dimensions of Partners, People and Planet and allows us to stay the course on projects to ensure their successful completion, helping to close Africa’s infrastructure gap.

Read more about the Impact we make and how we are transforming lives.

Our 8 brand statements

1. AFC is instrumental in helping Africa seize the moment to provide for the needs of a changing world.

Our new identity reinforces our role as the resilient and reliable bridge to a prosperous African future – aiming to advance Africa’s instrumental role as a global growth engine.

Through impact investing in infrastructure, AFC is committed to helping the continent position for greater success in a world of growing crisis and complexity.

From the minerals that power the global technology revolution, to the crops that feed the world, Africa can elevate its place as a global growth engine that is instrumental to the world.

We champion:

• Ushering in Africa’s ’Beneficiation Era’
• A fair and equitable energy transition for Africa
• Investment in climate-resilient infrastructure
• Investing in infrastructure to supercharge intra-Africa trade and help realise the AfCFTA.

2. We are the bridge to invest in the opportunities of a prosperous African future that we can build together.

From developing our gas reserves to rapid industrialization to intra-Africa trade and the AfCFTA, Africa needs capital to grow.

Our business is derisking projects, reliably managing funds and effectively deploying capital for maximum impact for the benefit of African economies and investors. As the steady navigator, we embody and amplify our investors aspirations to do well by doing good.

Our work impacts directly on the development of Africa whilst making risk adjusted returns for our shareholders and development partners. AFC encourages those seeking to invest in Africa to join with us to catalyse the change that Africa can achieve, whilst ensuring robust returns.

We support projects to completion, going further and faster to deliver the solutions that benefit the continent and those who invest in it.

3. From wind farms to green financing … we champion Africa’s sustainable development.

Infrastructure is Impact, and we help realise instrumental infrastructure that is resilient, sustainable and creates returns for our investors.

We already invest in some of the biggest wind farms in Africa, and our commitment to green financing is steadfast.

We play an important role in unlocking the potential of Africa’s key sectors by finding solutions to the challenges of sustainable infrastructure for generations to come.

4. We get things done.

We are motivated to achieve. We were conceived to find solutions that get projects past the finishing line and beyond.

Our energetic team of diverse professionals have introduced many firsts in our field such as project development and innovative construction finance.

For over 15 years AFC has proven that it understands how to proactively provide innovative solutions in an increasingly complex and challenging world.

5. We build special relationships.

We grow close and trusted partnerships throughout the investment process from day one.

Through our ecosystem approach, we work with our partners, including governments to make projects bankable and reach completion.

Through the many firsts we have introduced on the continent, including from financial advisory to project development, our partners understand that we offer a special relationship that that goes beyond mere financing because it is built on providing the right-fit solutions for investing on the continent. When you choose us as your partner, you feel the difference.

6. Our culture is execution.

Our solutions-culture allows us to credibly participate through the entire project life cycle, from concept design to construction to operations – a holistic approach where we seek to invest in every step of the value chain of a project.

To do this we harness our key strengths built up over many years:

• We are purpose-driven
• We are innovative
• We are collaborative
• We are entrepreneurial
• We are exponential.

7. We are innovative and evolving trendsetters.

The expertise of our diverse, talented and energetic team allows us to develop constant innovation and solve our partners’ challenges on everything from derisking projects to deploying unique investment solutions.

8. We are swift and agile.

We understand the mounting needs of our continent to develop urgently and at pace. We move with agility to swiftly structure and deploy capital in order to address the infrastructure gap, by acting as the resilient and reliable bridge to a prosperous African future.

Read more about us, our governance structures and our business model.