History
The All Africa Conference of Churches (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 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 AACC, through its All Africa Youth Network, initiated the All Africa Youth Congress (AAYC) to inspire the African youth to be Patriotic, Pan-African, and transformative Christians who invest in the realization of the vision and aspirations of Africa We Want.
The Inaugural AAYC took place in Accra, Ghana 2022, and brought together close to a thousand African youth from 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 various ecumenical and interfaith endeavors, 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 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.