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Entertainment Week Africa (EWA), the continent’s leading multi-sector creative summit, has announced its 2025 edition, scheduled to hold from Tuesday, 18th to Sunday, 23rd November 2025, across Livespot Entertarium, EbonyLife Cinema, and partner locations in Lagos.
Formerly known as Entertainment Week Lagos, EWA has evolved into a powerhouse gathering at the heart of Africa’s $58.4 billion creative economy, bridging creators, investors, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and global cultural leaders. Since its inception, the platform has welcomed over 53,000 attendees, trained 2,000 emerging creatives, and delivered more than 150 industry showcases, reinforcing its position as one of Africa’s most influential cultural movements.
2025 Theme: “Close the Gap”
The 2025 edition adopts the forward-looking theme “Close the Gap,” spotlighting access, infrastructure, visibility, and opportunity as the next frontier for Africa’s creative and commercial acceleration. The theme emphasises empowering builders, brands, and platforms shaping Africa’s cultural decade, while addressing persistent disparities in funding, distribution, training, and global market access.
Confirmed Global Guests
EWA 2025 will host an impressive lineup of internationally renowned creators, cultural disruptors, and business innovators, including:
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Stormzy – Global award-winning British rapper and cultural leader
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Matthew Henson – Stylist to Pharrell Williams and A$AP Rocky
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Jonathan Majors – Acclaimed American actor
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Kollin Carter – Stylist to Cardi B
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Emma Grede – Co-founder of Good American and the business force behind SKIMS
These high-profile guests are expected to lead headlining conversations, masterclasses, and creative collaborations designed to further elevate Africa’s creative industries on the world stage.
Highlights
EWA 2025 features a robust line-up of programmes designed to serve Africa’s creative ecosystems across film, fashion, technology, business, content creation, and music.
Film Hub
The Film Hub returns with an expanded format featuring directors’ cuts, behind-the-scenes conversations, curated premieres, and immersive, audience-driven screenings. It continues to redefine how African cinema is experienced, connecting filmmakers, investors, and audiences in a dynamic ecosystem of innovation and storytelling.
Deal Room + Content Market
EWA’s Deal Room — one of the continent’s most impactful entertainment-tech investment platforms — expands into film and music in 2025. Entrepreneurs will gain access to:
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₦25 million seed funding
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A network of Africa-focused investors
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Direct pitching and mentorship opportunities
To date, the Deal Room has facilitated more than $1 million in investments for startups breaking new ground in tech, travel, influencer marketing, and music distribution.
Alongside this, the debut Music & Film Content Market will bring buyers, sellers, distributors, and financiers together for a structured marketplace featuring daily screenings, investor clinics, and animation showcases.
Creative Job Fair
The pioneering Creative Job Fair will once again connect young African talents to industry-ready employment opportunities, linking more than 55 companies with job seekers across production, digital design, media, content creation, fashion, and technology. The Job Fair remains the continent’s biggest specialised hiring hub for creative professionals.
Creators Day
Designed for Africa’s booming creator economy, Creators Day will feature:
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Strategy-led panel conversations
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Industry pitching sessions
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Content creation workshops
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Business and monetisation clinics
The focus is to empower short-form creators with global-standard skills, platform literacy, and practical monetisation pathways.
Music Camp
The Music Camp will bring together artists, producers, engineers, and songwriters for hands-on labs, masterclasses, mentorship, and cross-border collaboration sessions. The camp aims to accelerate Africa’s global music export pipeline by nurturing emerging sonic innovators.
Runway Showcase + Film Lab
EWA’s signature fashion programme will spotlight a curated selection of African designers through its Runway Showcase, celebrating innovation and style from across the continent. Running parallel is the Film Lab, which supports emerging fashion filmmakers in developing narrative-driven visual stories that fuse fashion, film, and cultural identity.
About Entertainment Week Africa
Entertainment Week Africa is the continent’s largest multi-disciplinary creative summit, uniting Africa’s cultural ecosystems on one global platform. From fashion to film, technology to music, business to content creation, EWA shapes the growth and strategic direction of Africa’s creative economy through collaborative programming, industry networking, investment pipelines, and global exchange.
