Nigeria Fintech Week 2026: Afruniverse Should Be Exhibiting
A founder account of Nigeria Fintech Week 2026 in Lagos — and why Afruniverse should have a stand when the week returns in 2027.
Yesterday I attended Nigeria Fintech Week 2026 in Lagos — and I left with a bigger vision for Afruniverse.
I spent the day learning, meeting people, interacting with businesses and seeing first-hand how companies across Nigeria's fintech ecosystem are presenting their solutions and building partnerships.
What interested me most was not simply the technology. It was the ecosystem around it: businesses meeting businesses, founders explaining their solutions, people exchanging ideas, and relationships beginning with simple conversations.
As the founder of Afruniverse, I kept asking myself one question:
Where should Afruniverse be when Nigeria Fintech Week returns next year?
Not just in the audience
Afruniverse should have a stand.
We are building a marketplace that connects businesses with African creative talent — designers, video editors, content creators, developers, voice artists and other professionals — with the infrastructure to take those relationships from discovery to actual work.
Yesterday gave me an opportunity to observe, learn and make new connections.
Next year, my ambition is for people walking through Nigeria Fintech Week to be able to walk up to an Afruniverse stand, discover African creatives and experience the marketplace for themselves.
There is still plenty of work between here and there.
But that is exactly why I am putting the goal down now:
Nigeria Fintech Week 2027 — Afruniverse should be exhibiting
Yesterday I attended. Next year, we build our presence.
Kingsley Obi Lekan Founder, Afruniverse
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