THE ALL AFRICA YOUTH CONGRESS 2025

The All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) is a continental ecumenical body that
accounts for over 200 million Christians across Africa. It is the largest association of
Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, and Indigenous churches in Africa, with 213 members
comprising Churches, National Councils of Churches (NCCs), Theological and lay training
institutions, and other Christian organizations in 43 African countries. The AACC recognizes
that African youth are significant stakeholders in the continent’s welfare, growth, and
development. This is because the youth constitute most of Africa’s population, with young
people below thirty years comprising 70% of the continent’s population. Additionally, they
possess various and unique gifts, talents, skills, resources, and abilities that they can offer
and utilize to achieve any agenda they set their hearts and minds to. This confidence in the
African youth’s potential to drive and achieve transformative change is based on the
biblical evidence of significant ways through which God worked through and with young
people like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who defied ungodliness (Daniel 3), among
many others.
It is for this reason that the AACC initiated the All Africa Youth Congress (AAYC) to inspire
the African youth to be Patriotic, Pan-African, and transformative Christians who invest in
the development and transformation of Africa into a Prosperous, peaceful, and secure
continent they desire to live in as a home and for the prosperity of their future generations.
With the theme, ‘Africa. My Home. My Future.’ the AAYC not only stirs the African young
people’s love and celebration of their African heritage but also impresses upon them the
responsibility of driving the change they want to see in Africa: the only place they have as
a home and where their future is guaranteed.
The Inaugural AAYC took place in Accra, Ghana 2022, and brought together one thousand.
African youth in 43 African Countries and the diaspora. Among the key outcomes of this
congress is the AAYC Ghana declaration, an expression of the youth commitment to
spearhead Africa’s sustainable development. Since this congress, youth in various
countries have engaged in multiple ecumenical and interfaith endeavours accelerating the
realization of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the seven aspirations of the
Agenda 2063 in Africa. To strengthen the AAYC, consolidate its gains, and expand its
impact, AACC is organizing the second AAYC to occur during the 2025 African Youth Month
from 1st to 4th November 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya.