Global Citizen’s Move Afrika returned to Kigali for another year, with an unforgettable evening of music and citizen-led advocacy, headlined by Grammy® award-winning global superstar Doja Cat. Move Afrika: Kigali also featured a performance by DJ IRAA, as the groundbreaking pan-African touring circuit headlined by international artists celebrates its third year. The next stop on the tour will be Pretoria, South Africa on March 20.
Doja Cat electrified the sold-out BK Arena crowd with an incredible headline performance featuring some of her greatest hits, including ‘Paint The Town Red’, ‘Woman’, ‘Streets’, ‘Need to Know’, and ‘Jealous Type’. She paused to tell Kigali, “This is my first time in Africa… I love you… thank you so much Rwanda.”
“Global Citizen launched Move Afrika to build the first ever touring circuit for international artists in Africa, and create thousands of jobs in the creative economy,” said Hugh Evans, Co-Founder & CEO, Global Citizen. “And Kigali, we could not have chosen a better place to start!
Partners of Move Afrika: Kigali include pgLang, Big Concerts, Major Tour Partner Cisco, and the Rwanda Development Board.
Move Afrika is Global Citizen’s pan-African touring initiative designed to address the world’s inequities by creating job and entrepreneurship opportunities for the continent’s emerging generations through an annual series of live music events. Showcasing the best of Africa to the world, Move Afrika drives transformative investments within local communities, engaging local vendors, agencies, artists and crews, while creating opportunities for on-the-job skill development and training. Move Afrika sets a new gold-standard for entertainment touring events on the continent, increasing demand from international and regional artists to tour in the region and building local capacity within host cities. The tour will continue to expand annually, with additional countries joining the circuit as Move Afrika scales across the continent over the next five years.
Global Citizen is grateful for the support of leading media companies including: BellaNaija, EIB Network, Rolling Stone Africa, TIME Africa, TimesLIVE and Vanguard Media.
The 2026 installment of Move Afrika builds on Global Citizen’s previous campaigns and events across Africa, including the 2025 installment of Move Afrika: Kigali and Move Afrika: Lagos, headlined by John Legend; the inaugural 2023 edition of Move Afrika: Rwanda, headlined by Kendrick Lamar; Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100, which featured Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Ed Sheeran, Usher, Eddie Vedder, and Chris Martin of Coldplay in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2018; Global Citizen Live: Lagos, with performances by Davido, Femi Kuti, and Tiwa Savage at Fela Kuti’s New Afrika Shrine in 2021; and Global Citizen Festival: Accra, which brought Usher, SZA, Stormzy, and TEMS to the Black Star Square in 2022.
For more information visit moveafrika.org.
