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AFRICA TRADE AWARDS 2026

Recognition Honours for Africa's Trade and Industrialization

Awards Basis

The Africa Trade Awards are recognition honours, conferred to acknowledge demonstrated contribution and delivered outcomes that have advanced Africa's trade, industrial capacity, and market integration. The Awards do not operate as competitive prizes and do not involve ranking or comparison. Recognition is conferred at the discretion of the Awards Committee, based on evidence of substantive impact within the reference period.

Tier I

Prof. Benedict Oramah (Former President of Afreximbank)
Africa Trade Leader of the Year

Prof. Benedict Oramah (Former President of Afreximbank)

Professor Benedict Oramah is recognised for his singular contribution to the quiet but consequential task of giving African trade a financial system c...
Africa Trade Finance Architect of the Year

Afreximbank

The African Export–Import Bank is recognised for its decisive role in reshaping the financial conditions under which African trade is conducted. Over ...

Tier II

Industrial Energy Project of the Year

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is recognised for its decisive contribution to the industrial foundations of the Horn of Africa and for altering, ...
Advanced Manufacturing Excellence Award

Elsewedy Electric

Elsewedy Electric is recognised for establishing advanced manufacturing capacity in Africa that combines technical precision with scale, and for doing...
Pharmaceutical & Health Manufacturing Excellence Award

Aspen Pharmacare

Aspen Pharmacare is recognised for establishing and sustaining pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in Africa at a level of technical depth and regul...
Industrial Technology & Automation Award

Bakhresa Group

Bakhresa Group is recognised for its disciplined application of industrial technology and automation across large-scale manufacturing operations in Af...
Industrial Export Champion of the Year

OCP Group

OCP Group is recognised for establishing one of Africa's most consequential industrial export platforms through the sustained production and global su...

Tier III

Trade Infrastructure & Logistics Excellence Award

Africa Global Logistics

Africa Global Logistics is recognised for its role in giving practical form to the movement of trade across the African continent. Its contribution li...
SME Trade Expansion Platform of the Year

Flutterwave

Flutterwave is recognised for its role in making cross-border trade practicable for African small and medium-sized enterprises that had long been cons...
Intra-African Trade Systems Champion of the Year

Rwanda

The Republic of Rwanda is recognised for demonstrating how national systems, when coherently designed and consistently executed, can materially improv...
Trade & Industrial Finance Institution of the Year

Trade & Development Bank

The Trade and Development Bank is recognised for its sustained role in enabling trade and industrial activity across Eastern and Southern Africa throu...
Enterprise and Expansion Award

Ethiopian Airlines

Ethiopian Airlines is recognised for building, with consistency and foresight, one of Africa's most consequential enterprises in trade connectivity an...
Patricia Poku-Diaby
Women in Trade & Industry Leadership Award

Patricia Poku-Diaby

Patricia Poku-Diaby is recognised for her leadership in advancing industrial value addition within African agriculture, and for doing so through enter...

Tier IV

Trade Infrastructure & Systems Impact Award

Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS)

The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System is recognised for addressing one of the most persistent and least visible constraints on African trade: ...

Tier V

Gervais Koffi Djondo
Distinguished Recognition

Gervais Koffi Djondo

Gervais Koffi Djondo is recognised for a lifetime devoted to the patient construction of Africa's trade and private-sector institutions, and for a for...

About The Awards

The Africa Trade Awards are recognition honours established by the African Trade Chamber to acknowledge individuals, institutions, enterprises, and public authorities whose work has materially shaped Africa's trade and industrial landscape.

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