About Heard In Africa
About the Company
Africa has always produced world-class thinkers, leaders, innovators, and storytellers. The gap was never the talent. The gap was the infrastructure to connect that talent with the audiences that needed to hear it.
Heard In Africa was founded to close that gap.
Growing up witnessing the remarkable achievements of Africans across the globe — founding companies, pioneering ideas, setting records — our founder Chimfumnanya Nwandu saw something missing: a dedicated, professional home for African speakers on the world stage. After five years managing corporate events and watching organisations struggle to find, vet, and prepare the right voices, she built the platform she wished had existed.
Heard In Africa is now Africa's speaker management and conference programming partner of choice — working with pan-African summits, global institutions, and forward-looking organisations who understand that the right voice at the right moment can change what a room believes is possible.
We manage speakers end-to-end. We design conference programmes from the ground up. We position African experts to be heard at the level their expertise deserves. And we do all of it with the rigour, relationships, and care that Africa's excellence warrants.
Chimfumnanya Nwandu
Founder & Executive Director
Vision
To be the foremost globally recognised platform connecting African voices with world-class stages — making Africa's expertise impossible to ignore.
Mission
To connect and showcase Africa's leading speakers and thinkers to the world by providing end-to-end speaker management, strategic positioning, and conference programming that creates meaningful, lasting impact for events and audiences everywhere.
Why Heard In Africa Exists
African expertise is consistently underrepresented on global stages — not because of a shortage of knowledge, but because of a shortage of professional infrastructure.
There has been no dedicated agency doing for African speakers what the world's best speaker management firms do for their rosters.
Heard In Africa exists to change that. We are not a marketplace. We are a management company, and there is a meaningful difference.
Founder
Chimfumnanya Nwandu — Executive Director
Chimfumnanya Nwandu is the founder and Executive Director of Heard In Africa. With over five years of experience managing corporate events across Nigeria and beyond, she has sat on both sides of the stage — as the person responsible for finding the right speaker, and as the person who understands what it takes to prepare them. She founded Heard In Africa from a conviction that Africa's most compelling voices deserved a professional home that matched their calibre. She holds the relationships, the programme design expertise, and the speaker management infrastructure that makes Heard In Africa the agency it is.
Our Approach
Speaker Management
Finding, vetting, briefing, and supporting speakers from first conversation to final applause.
Speaker Agency
Positioning African speakers for the global stages their expertise deserves.
Conference Programming
Designing agendas with intellectual coherence, deliberate flow, and purposeful session design.
Speaker Visibility
Helping experts build a stronger profile, clearer narrative, and stronger stage presence.
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