December 1, 2026
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SuperReturn Africa is the premier private capital conference for the African continent, held from 1 to 3 December 2026 at The Westin in Cape Town. Organised by Informa Connect as part of the global SuperReturn series, the event brings together 700+ attendees including 200+ LPs with $1.5 trillion in assets under management and 350+ GPs, facilitating 13,000+ meetings across three days. The programme opens on 1 December with a specialist summits day running four concurrent tracks covering Private Credit, Fundraising, Infrastructure, and a newly introduced Tech, AI and VC Summit. Two full main conference days follow on 2 and 3 December, featuring plenary sessions, GP masterclasses, LP-only closed-door discussions, LP-only fund presentations and lunches, an LP circle, a Women in Africa networking and masterclass lunch, a dedicated North Africa stream, the SuperReturn Africa Awards Ceremony, and a farewell drinks reception. Qualifying LPs attend free of charge. The event is CPD certified and curated by the SuperReturn LP Council.
The event draws the broadest and most internationally diverse private capital community focused on Africa, spanning development finance institutions, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, family offices, and insurance companies on the LP side, alongside pan-African fund managers, country-focused GPs, infrastructure investors, private credit managers, and venture capital firms on the GP side. LPs who attended in 2025 include the International Finance Corporation, KfW Development Bank, US International Development Finance Corporation, Mastercard Foundation, and the Public Investment Corporation. GPs who attended include Affirma Capital, AfricInvest, Goodwell Investments, Vantage Capital, SPE Capital, Verod Capital, Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Managers, and RMBV. LP speakers in 2025 represented organisations including Vatternfields Investments, the Motor Industry Retirement Funds, EBRD, the Government Institutions Pension Fund, the Government Employees Pension Fund, Swedfund, Small Foundation, and FinDev Canada. GP speakers represented DPI Venture Capital, Tana Africa Capital, Capitalworks, EXEO Capital, Quona Capital, Novastar Ventures, Infra Impact Investment Managers, and Sanari Capital.
The specialist summits day on 1 December runs four parallel tracks: the Private Credit Summit covering private credit evolution, risk and returns, SME financing, trade finance, secondaries, and venture debt; the Fundraising Summit addressing domestic capital mobilisation, LP perspectives, pension funds, emerging managers, family offices, and independent sponsors; the Infrastructure Summit covering energy, climate, digital infrastructure, transport, critical minerals, and public-private partnerships; and the new Tech, AI and VC Summit exploring fintech, AI adoption, digital assets, tokenisation, valuations, and exit dynamics. Main Conference Day One on 2 December opens with a geopolitics and macroeconomics keynote from The Economist's Chief Africa Correspondent, followed by a state of African private markets panel, value creation strategies, fund domiciliation in Africa, LP know-your-investor dynamics, FX and macro risk management, VC cycles, permanent capital vehicles, fintech and financial inclusion, AI in Africa, and a gender lens investing discussion, closing with the SuperReturn Africa Awards Ceremony. Main Conference Day Two on 3 December covers Africa's ascendancy in global private capital, food and agriculture investment, East-West Africa dynamics, South Africa's investor momentum, Asia-Africa capital corridors, Francophone Africa opportunities, Egypt as a growth gateway, Morocco, and broader North Africa including Algeria, Tunisia, and Islamic finance, with parallel closed-door LP sessions throughout.
The agenda spans the full breadth of private capital strategy across Sub-Saharan and North Africa. Key themes include the impact of US foreign policy shifts, tariff changes, and aid realignment on Africa's investment landscape; which asset classes and sectors are gaining LP allocation momentum; hands-on value creation strategies across African portfolio companies; the case for domiciling funds within Africa; LP segmentation and tailored GP engagement strategies for DFIs, fund of funds, family offices, and pension funds; managing FX volatility, currency devaluation, and macro risk across African markets; the maturation and consolidation of African VC ecosystems; permanent capital vehicles as a structure for African private equity; fintech and digital financial inclusion as investable growth themes; AI adoption across African markets and its investment implications; gender lens investing and women-led fund development; intra-African trade and the continent's positioning in global capital flows; food and agriculture as an underinvested value chain; South Africa's renewed investment momentum; Asia-Africa investment corridors and business model transferability; Francophone Africa as an underpriced opportunity set; and the evolution of North Africa's private capital markets across Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
SuperReturn Africa 2026 concludes on 3 December with the chair's closing remarks at 3:25pm following the final North Africa stream sessions on Morocco and broader North African investment themes, succeeded by a farewell drinks reception from 3:30pm to 5:00pm at The Westin Cape Town, bringing three days of African private capital content, deal-making, and community connection to a close.
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