The Magic of Our Convening!

An audience of nearly 400 gathered for the first ever Convening on Commodity Exchanges in Africa, with an opening call to engage with passion and creativity, in honest dialogue and reflection on the future of our continent’s agricultural markets and Africa’s rightful place in the emerging new global commodity order where the push for better coordinated, more transparent, and better regulated markets will shape the next few years. With an early principle that, all protocols observed, this was a coming together of minds and spirits rather than yet another conference, workshop, or summit, the Convening engaged with open dialogue format rather than formal presentations, with superb moderators, including top African journalist Komla Dumor of BBC World News, Tumi Makgabo formerly CNN, and Belinda Obura of Citizen TV Kenya among others, to keep the discussion sharp and on focus, timely, sometimes combative, and leaving no stone unturned. From near and far. Participants...