Welcome to the Afrikan Cooperative Union
Building financial freedom and generational wealth to give choice and empower the African diaspora.
The ACU exists to build financial freedom and generational wealth to give give to and empower the African diaspora.
We’re doing this by building a finance and knowledge network where resources and information can be pooled and utilised for the benefit of all members of the community, through education, livelihood development, and asset accumulation.
Mission
To help African people build the economic basis required for their psychological, political and cultural renewal and wellbeing.
Vision
To see African communities, in the UK and elsewhere, that are culturally self-centred, psychologically self-reliant, economically prosperous, and successfully pursuing their aspirations.
Our Chair and a Founder
Tajudeen Sadiku
Taj is the Chair person of the ACU.
A serial investor, business owner and philanthropist who is passionate about the betterment of Africans and friends of Africa from a social, economic and financial standpoint.
He truly believes that we can go far as a people if we all practice group or collective economics in some of our issues. The future is bright, the future is Africa.
Nzingha Assata
Nzingha Assata is the Membership Liaison Liaison Officer and one of the founding members of the ACU.
She has a BA (Hons) in Social Science and her profession was in nursing, as a health visitor and a lecturer practice educator.
She would strongly encourage members of the community to come on board, join the ACU to help build a lasting legacy of financial autonomy which will benefit ourselves and future generation.