Nigeria, May 18 -- From May 20-23 in Nairobi, the Africa Soft Power Summit convenes investors, creators, policymakers and technologists around a single, urgent question: when finance, creativity and human capital compound together, what becomes possible?

There is a gap that anyone who has watched Afrobeats conquer global streaming charts, or seen a Lagos fashion label land in a Paris showroom, or tracked the valuations attached to Nollywood's streaming rights will recognise instinctively. African creativity travels. African cultural influence is real, measurable and growing. What has not kept pace is the ownership, the infrastructure and the capital that would allow the continent to capture the value its creativity generates rather than ...