Africa holds approximately 30% of the world’s green and technology mineral reserves.
The International Energy Agency projects a 30% copper shortfall and a 40% lithium shortfall by 2035. The minerals required to power global electrification & usher in the new age of tech sit overwhelmingly beneath African soil.
Fewer than 3% of global mining private equity targets African assets. Less than 10% of Africa’s critical mineral project pipeline has secured financing. The structural capital gap is widening precisely as strategic demand intensifies.
The Africans for Africa Initiative was built for this moment. Combining institutional-grade private equity with advisory to deliver what no single instrument can achieve alone: an African mining vehicle where commercial discipline and African ownership are the same thing.
AFA was formed to help sustainably develop African mining projects.
Because the continent that holds 30% of the world’s mineral reserves and generates less than 3% of global mining private equity returns has been structurally failed, we intend to structurally correct it.
This is our initiative’s purpose.
The AFA Mining Fund operates two access points into a single institutional vehicle. Institutional investors: DFIs, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices participate directly in the main fund.
Diaspora and retail investors participate through a structured feeder fund.
Both tiers co-invest in a single vehicle with unified governance, accountability, reporting & fiduciary standards.
DFIs · Sovereign Wealth Funds · Pension Funds · Family Offices
Full institutional governance. Mauritius VCC. FSC regulated. Independent Investment Committee. The feeder capital layer validates social licence and expands the impact story without compromising the institutional framework.
Africans and those of African descent globally · Impact-aligned private investors
(Via Feeder Fund) –same economic exposure.
Same governance standards. Same returns. Same accountability & reporting. Enquire for participation criteria.
Ministries of Finance · Mining · Development
When African capital is pooled and sits alongside DFIs and sovereign wealth funds in the same fund, it changes the political economics of every investment AFA makes on the continent.
A gold tailing reprocessing operation in Tarkwa, Ghana is the Fund’s inaugural investment.
It demonstrates origination capability, execution discipline, and the near-term cash flow orientation of the portfolio. Details are available in the investor presentation.
The AFA Mining Fund actively welcomes global institutional capital, sovereign wealth funds, development finance institutions, pension funds, and specialist investment managers from across the Gulf, Asia, Europe, and the Americas as limited partner investors in the Fund.