Honest conversations. Open minds.
A global community for African and diaspora professionals to connect, heal and grow.
Conversations
We have the conversations everyone avoids.
Personal. Social. Business. Existential. The issues nobody else is willing to talk about.
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🇬🇭 Ghana
Everyone in Accra Is Sad
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🇳🇬 Nigeria
Surviving Lagos
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🇬🇭 Ghana
Raised to Cheat
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Diaspora Diaries
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🇰🇪 Kenya
Surviving Nairobi
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Bad With Money
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🇳🇬 Nigeria
My African Parents
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🇬🇭 Ghana
How Men Think
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🇬🇭 Ghana
The Unsettling Side of Settling Down
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🇬🇭 Ghana
Decoding the Human Connection
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🇬🇭 Ghana
Honest to God
Our spaces
How we transform lives.
No panels. Just people learning from each other and leaving changed.
You leave with
Belonging.Proof you're not the only one.
Clarity.A truer view of yourself and your choices.
Growth.A next step, and people who'll hold you to it.
We pick the personal and social issues people find hardest to talk about.
01
Find the real issue
Research, good questions and trained moderators who guide without lecturing.
02
Plan the conversation
Members and partners in one open space. Everyone speaks. Everyone listens.
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Bring people together
Accountability partners, resources and community keep the change going.
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Keep growing
Community
We connect you to what helps you grow.
Find your people. Everything else follows.
Lifelong friends. Collaborators. An accountability partner who keeps you on track.
People
When people truly know you, doors open. Members look out for each other.
Opportunities
Conversation guides. Recaps. The podcast. Programs that keep you growing.
Resources
In their words
It's very rare to find people you can be safe with. OPENSPACE has been the gift I didn't know I needed.
Esi OtchereAdmissions, Webster University · Ghana
Our moderators
Hosted by some of Africa's brightest minds.
Bola Ray. Founder & CEO, EIB Network. Ghana.
Maya Horgan Famodu. Founder & General Partner, Ingressive Capital. Nigeria.
Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola. General Manager, Lagos State Residents Registration Agency. Nigeria.
Dentaa Amoateng MBE. President & CEO, GUBA Enterprise. United Kingdom.
Izzy Obeng MBE. CEO, Foundervine. United Kingdom.
Yvonne Bajela. Founder & General Partner, Evertrue Capital. United Kingdom.
William Adoasi. Founder & CEO, Vitae London. United Kingdom.
Emmanuel Agbeko Gamor. Founder & Host, Unpacking Africa. Ghana.
Lela Omo-Ikirodah. Project Manager, Nigeria–China Strategic Partnership. Nigeria.
Lady-Omega Hammond. Chief Operating Officer, Rancard. Ghana.
Josiah Kwesi Eyison. Co-founder & Chief Visionary Officer, iSpace Foundation. Ghana.
Fred Apaloo. CEO & Creative Director, Villa Grace. Ghana.
Terry Afram. Managing Director, Bridge Partners. Ghana.
Akua Nyame-Mensah. Founder & Executive Coach, A.N.M. & Company. Ghana.
Kimberly Ofori. Founder & CEO, The Bold New Company. Netherlands.
Rashida Abdulai. International Arbitration Lawyer, DLA Piper. United Kingdom.
Jemila Abdulai. Founder, Circumspecte. Ghana.
Dr Samuelson Appau. Associate Professor of Marketing, Melbourne Business School. Australia.
Natalie Narh. Co-founder & CEO, New Comma. United Kingdom.
Arnold Sarfo-Kantanka. Founder, Future of Ghana. United Kingdom.
Chrystal Aryee. Broadcaster & Communications Consultant. Ghana.
Joseph Nti. Host & Co-creator, Sincerely Accra. Ghana.
Courtney Daniella Boateng. Co-founder, To My Sisters. United Kingdom.
Kwame Asante Ofori. Producer & Co-creator, Sincerely Accra. United States.
Oyin Johnson. Associate General Counsel, ALX. Nigeria.
Uchechi Eke. Head of Fundraising & Operations, Royal African Society. United Kingdom.
David Dei-Awuku (Mr Dei). MC & Public Speaking Coach. Ghana.
David Fisayo. Managing Director, SureGifts. Nigeria.
Walla Elsheikh. Co-founder & CEO, Birthright AFRICA. United States.
Mthabisi Bokete. Co-founder & CEO, OrionX. Botswana.
Jewel Thompson. Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Ashesi University. Ghana.
Felix Hamidu. Executive Director, d'Afrique Ghana. Ghana.
Sunita Kragbe. Founder & CEO, BaseCamp Initiative. Ghana.
Lambert Akwa. PR & Communications Consultant. Ghana.Our mission
Honest conversations, everywhere.
Honest conversations change people. Changed people change their families, workplaces and communities.
YouYour communitiesThe world
Why we exist
There's a difference between being alive and actually living. OPENSPACE is where I get to show up fully as myself. I want everyone to have that.
Sydney SamFounder, OPENSPACE
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Ways in
Start free. Become more.
Free to join. Gatherings. Your chapter's WhatsApp community. The global groups.
Become a member
Every member takes it. We'll invite you after you join.
Take the Pledge
Paired with a member near you or across the world. A new partner every few months.
Accountability Partners
Learn to hold the space as a moderator, or help run your chapter.
Give back
Back the mission year after year, across every chapter.
Patrons
Title a chapter season, the Festival of Conversations or HumanityCon.
Sponsors
A venue. Media. Travel. Expertise. As essential to us as funding.
Partners
Mindset transformation for your teams. Ownership. Accountability. Trust.
OPENSPACE for Business
Invest in people who are changing their world.
Partner with a trusted community and a proven method for mindset transformation.
Young professionals in Accra, co-hosted with TRIBVL Africa and title sponsored by FNB. Brand visibility. Talent access. Thought leadership.
Case study
TRIBVL × OPENSPACE: Entrepreneurship in Africa
20s–50sProfessionals across Africa & the diaspora
2,000+People at OPENSPACE since 2018
100Chapters by 2030
600+Active community members
5 live2,000+ peoplesince 2018
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- Kenya
- United Kingdom
- South Africa
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