The AU Digital & Innovation Fellowship
Through AfriLabs, Mamashiya Ntsepeng Tsita Tikiso mentored 18 AU Fellows across the African Union, guiding them through structured group sessions on resilience, strategic thinking, and emotional intelligence, and providing one-on-one mentorship that connected projects to AU objectives and fellows to broader professional networks.
African Union Innovation fellow posing for a photograph
AfriLabs is more than a network; it’s a catalyst for growth, collaboration, and meaningful impact across Africa’s innovation ecosystem.
Mamashiya Ntsepeng Tsita Tikiso, Founding Partner, BAM Group, Lesotho
African Union Innovation fellows
The Francophone Bridge: ACBP in Action
Alida Ebo’o’s work in 2025 demonstrates how education and human capital development take shape across diverse linguistic and regional contexts. Through ACBP, AfriLabs expanded access to critical knowledge, tools, and peer learning opportunities across Francophone Africa, where ecosystem support has historically been limited. By convening over 250 members from Cameroon, Gabon, DRC, Congo-Brazzaville, Burundi, and Equatorial Guinea - and working with SING in Gabon and CINOLU in DRC on women’s
entrepreneurship - Ebo’o demonstrated how AfriLabs’ learning infrastructure can be genuinely pan-African, not merely English- speaking African. In 2026, AfriLabs will continue to scale its education and capacity-building efforts while advancing sustainable approaches to learning across the ecosystem.
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AfriLabs Annual Report 2025
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