Africa One Group Story
Africa One Group was founded on a simple but demanding idea: Africa's growth should be built, owned, and told by the people closest to it. Founder & CEO Wilbert Frank Chaniwa brought more than 27 years of hospitality management experience across the UK and Africa — including direct operational leadership with international hotel brands — into a single question: what would it take to build an enterprise that grows African agriculture, brands African hospitality, and trades African products on equal footing with the rest of the world?
The answer became Africa One Group: a UK–Africa enterprise, dual-registered in the UK and Rwanda and RDB-approved, with its Africa headquarters in Kigali. What started as a hospitality brand-building venture — RIC Brands — has grown into a seven-division group spanning investment, agribusiness, hospitality and tourism, green energy, trade, media and events, and knowledge transfer. Every division shares the same operating discipline: real assets, real partnerships, and real knowledge transfer, not extraction dressed up as investment.
Today, Africa One Group works with investors, producers, hospitality operators, agripreneurs, diplomatic partners, and diaspora communities across more than a dozen African markets — convening them through platforms like Origin Cup and the Africa Coffee Festival London, financing them through Africa One Fund, and equipping them through Masterclass Africa.
Our Team
Wilbert Chaniwa
Director
Wilbert leads Africa One Group's overall strategy across all seven divisions. With 27+ years in hospitality development and management across the UK and Africa, he brings direct operational experience to the Group's investment, brand-building, and trade strategy — and a personal, deep-rooted connection to African heritage that shapes how the Group builds, partners, and communicates.
Clement Ndegeya
Director
Based at the Africa HQ in Kigali, Clément leads the Group's on-the-ground execution across Rwanda and East Africa, including partner engagement, local venture development, and coordination with Rwandan regulatory and diplomatic bodies.
Clement Ndegeya is a Kigali-based entrepreneur and business leader whose career spans hospitality,
international trade, real estate investment, commercial strategy, and the organisation of conferences
and stakeholder events. With more than a decade of experience across East Africa and North America,
he combines entrepreneurial execution with the ability to structure partnerships, mobilise capital, build
operating systems, and translate promising concepts into viable commercial ventures.
He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Anda Services Group Ltd, the company behind Anda
Kigali. From the restaurant’s establishment in 2022, Clement helped shape the venture from financial
modelling and capital mobilisation through procurement, operational set-up, market positioning,
partnership development, and growth. Anda emerged as a distinctive fine-dining destination centred
on service excellence, creative cuisine, and locally sourced ingredients—earning recognition in
international travel and dining coverage of Kigali.
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Rachael White
Strategic Partner
Rachel is a 50/50 MOU partner on several of the Group's flagship convening platforms, including Origin Cup, the Africa Coffee Festival London, the Deal Makers Dinner, and AGAA, co-founding the events strategy that brings investors and producers together.
Our Approach
Africa One Group is guided by six non-negotiable pillars that govern every division, partnership, and piece of content the Group produces:
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Food sovereignty and indigenous crop revival
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Agricultural knowledge transfer
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Value-added trade and market access
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Hospitality brand building and knowledge transfer
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Africa investment facilitation
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Grow Africa, Brand Africa, Trade Africa
These pillars are not marketing language — they are the filter every deal, course, event, and partnership is measured against before it carries the Africa One Group name.
Us in Numbers
350+
Client Network in Africa, & Global Markets
56+
Events Hosted
26
Business Partners in over 12 Countries
Successful Capital Raise Projects
27
Years of Experience