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Written by: Regine Guevara
When the world talks about change, too often Africa is cast as needing solutions. But this September, Africa is stepping into a new role—not as a beneficiary, but as a co-leader, innovator, and agenda-setter. Unstoppable Africa 2025—the flagship Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) event held alongside the UN General Assembly—invites the Global South to reclaim the narrative and drive economic, environmental, and social progress on our own terms.
For many countries in the Global South, persistent challenges—climate disruption, trade barriers, investment gaps, underrepresentation in global decision-making—aren’t peripheral. They are existential.
On 21–22 September 2025, Marriott Marquis, Manhattan, New York—on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, for governments, business leaders, youth movements, civil society, and investors to show up with solutions, bring evidence, proposals, models that have worked locally. From climate regulation to trade rules and investment norms—if the Global South isn’t at the table setting the rules, outcomes will always favor others.
When the world talks about change, too often Africa is cast as needing solutions. But this September, Africa is stepping into a new role—not as a beneficiary, but as a co-leader, innovator, and agenda-setter. Unstoppable Africa 2025, the flagship Global Africa Business Initiative, offers a platform to reclaim the narrative and drive economic, environmental, and social progress on its own terms.
In doing so, this event positions African Creative industries and artists of color, not merely as participants, but as exemplars of what the region can offer when creativity, culture, ambition, and vision unite. “Where Tomorrow Begins” is an Afro-futurist dance and mapping production that transports audiences into NUBORA, a visionary universe of Africa’s seven realms of imagination. Rooted in ORUN mythology and ancestral storytelling, the piece unfolds as a journey through earth, air, fire, forest, sound, and light—transforming the stage into a living canvas of movement and technology. Far more than entertainment, Where Tomorrow Begins is an offering: a performance that embodies Africa’s creative force as a gift to the world, affirming imagination as a power of transformation.
The show director is Dr. Xander Pratt, awarded by CNN Africa as Top 10 Avant Garde Artists from Africa. Born in Zimbabwe with roots in Ghana and South Africa, Xander Pratt is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, fashion designer, creative director, writer, life coach, and philanthropist, who has toured across Australia, Morocco, Philippines, Malaysia, Brazil, El Salvador, Turkey, UAE, USA, Russia, France, Austria, Germany among others. Dr. Pratt co-produced and directed The African Dream, a theatre work presented in association with the African Union and US Congress Summit, and later on the UNESCO International Theatre Institute. A soon-to-release work by Dr. Pratt is The Black Sultan —an example of his growing ambition in historical storytelling through film.
Alongside Xander is his Associate Director, a native of Belize, Central America, Jamie J. Thompson, internationally known and respected for his vision and commitment to cultural preservation and ingenuity in the arts . Recently, Jamie was a member of the Dance Ensemble of Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts. His performance credits also includes Bruce Wood Dance Dallas, Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Tuacahn Performing Arts Center. He has been referred by Asad Jafri of the Kaleidoscope Foundation, whose support for the African Creative Alliance includes cultural sponsorships to Hell’s Kitchen on Broadway—part of a larger effort to build bridges for African artists in global creative industries.
Unstoppable Africa 2025 isn’t just an event—it’s a signal. For too long, Africa’s story has been one of potential. Now it’s becoming one of leadership, innovation, and unapologetic ambition. The world will be listening. The Global South must be ready to rise.
