Africa Center for Economic Dialogue (AfCED)
Africa’s Digital Economy Starts With Skilled People.
AfCED is Uganda’s and East Africa’s leading institution for Digital Transformation & AI education, implementation, and continental economic dialogue. We train entrepreneurs, transform companies, and build the AI-literate African workforce that Agenda 2063, Uganda Vision 2040, the East African Community, and the African Continental Free Trade Area all demand – not as a promise, but as daily practice.
Born in Kampala. Built for a Continent.
Discover Our Journey So Far
AfCED was founded in 2020 with a bold and simple belief – that Africa’s economic transformation would not come from outside the continent. It would be built by Africa’s own entrepreneurs, professionals, and institutions, equipped with the right knowledge, tools, and platforms to compete and win in a rapidly changing global economy.

A prosperous, digitally soverign, AI-literate Africa
A Word from our Founder
“From the AfCED Academy to launching AI 4 Africa – everything AfCED does is in direct service of one vision: a prosperous, digitally sovereign, AI-literate Africa.
Africa does not need to be saved. Africa needs to be skilled, connected, and empowered. Every entrepreneur we train, every company we transform, and every dialogue we convene is one more step toward the prosperous, AI-literate, digitally sovereign continent that Agenda 2063 promises and that our generation must deliver.”
Julius Kazibwe Nsubuga – CEO & Founder, AfCED
Africa’s Digital Gap Is Real. We Are Closing It.
African businesses are losing revenue, customers, and opportunity every single day. AfCED exists to change that – through practical digital skills, AI tools, and bold continental action.

Structured Courses
Learn the Tools. Apply Them Now. Grow Your Business / Career.
Practical Digital Marketing & AI courses for entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, business owners, and career changers. Three levels — Foundational, Pro, and AI Expert — delivered in Kampala and online across Africa. Hands-on from day one. Classes recorded. Certificate from AfCED upon completion.

Corporate Training
Upskill Your Team. Transform Your Organization. Measure the Results.
Custom Digital Marketing & AI training programs designed for companies, NGOs, SACCOs, government agencies, and institutions. We assess your team’s specific needs, design a program around your business objectives, and deliver training on-site or online. One AfCED corporate program generates measurable ROI within 90 days.

AI 4 Africa Initiative
Africa Doesn’t Just Need to Use AI. Africa Needs to Lead It.
AfCED’s flagship continental initiative – building Africa’s AI literacy through online MasterClasses open to all African countries, a growing YouTube movement, weekly AI insights, and direct AI consultancy for African companies and institutions ready to implement AI systems that transform how they operate, compete, and grow.
AI 4 Africa Initiative
AI 4 Africa is AfCED’s continental initiative dedicated to one goal: ensuring that Africa’s entrepreneurs, professionals, companies, and institutions are not just consumers of artificial intelligence but builders, implementers, and leaders of it.

What We Do Directly Advances Africa’s Most Important Development Goals.
Our Contribution to Africa’s Future
AfCED does not operate in isolation from Africa’s grand development frameworks. We are a living, daily expression of what those frameworks require at the grassroots level — skilled people, innovative businesses, and AI-literate institutions competing confidently in the global and continental economy.

Africa Agenda 2063
Africa’s 50-year blueprint calls for an innovative, knowledge-driven, digitally empowered continent. AfCED builds the human capital Agenda 2063 requires — one trained entrepreneur and one transformed institution at a time.

Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
The African Continental Free Trade Area create a market of over 1.4 billion people. AfCED equips Africa’s entrepreneurs and businesses with the digital marketing and AI tools they need to access, compete in, and win in this market.

UN Sustainable Development Goals
AfCED directly advances SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), and SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) – through every course delivered, every corporate program executed, and every public forum convened.

Uganda Vision 2040
Uganda’s national transformation agenda identifies ICT and digital skills as critical drivers of the country’s journey from developing to prosperous. AfCED is a private sector engine executing Vision 2040 goals daily — without waiting for government to do it alone.
Our Approach
Everything AfCED does is practical, African-centered, and built for immediate impact.
Diagnose First
We start by understanding your business, your team, or your market before recommending any training or solution. No guesswork. No generic programs.
Practical Training
Every course and corporate program is hands-on from day one. We teach tools you open, use, and apply to your real business before the class ends.
African Context
Our curriculum is built for African markets, African infrastructure, and African business realities — not imported and rebranded from elsewhere.
AI-Powered Solutions
We integrate AI tools into everything we teach and implement – because AI is no longer optional for businesses that want to compete and grow.
Measure the Results
We track outcomes – enrollments, leads generated, revenue grown, campaigns launched. Impact is measured, not assumed.
Ongoing Support
Learning does not end when the class does. Our students and clients receive continued tutor support, resources, and community access after every program.
Meet Our Leadership
AfCED is led by people who believe deeply in Africa’s potential and work daily to build it – through education, technology, and bold continental dialogue.

Julius Kazibwe Nsubuga
Founder & CEO

Fred Buster
Academy & Training Lead

Lisa Hoffman
Corporate & Partnerships Lead