ATLI is a Ghana-incorporated institute, established on 14 June 2024, convened to build the African Traditional Leaders Union — and to serve, thereafter, as its bureau and secretariat.
Temporarily housed at the World Trade Center in Accra and led by Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Ho Asogli State, ATLI stands at the intersection of chieftaincy, continental statecraft and the promise of AU Agenda 2063.
A united and integrated Africa pursuing peaceful, sustainable and accelerated development.
To facilitate the utilization of Africa's inherent capabilities, including African traditional leadership structures, to build the Africa We Want under the African Union Agenda 2063.
The road from an institute to a continental union.
ATLI's founding purpose is to build a legitimate, continental body of African traditional leaders — and to hand over its own institutional architecture to serve it.
Twelve themes. One continent. One conversation.
ATLI's strategic themes track the AU Agenda 2063 while remaining anchored in the courtyards and councils where tradition lives.
Legitimacy that reaches the last mile.
African traditional leaders hold trust in places policy rarely reaches. From land stewardship to conflict resolution, from culture to climate, chieftaincy remains a durable framework for legitimacy and belonging.
ATLI brings that legitimacy into continental conversation — so that AU decisions arrive as lived reality in villages, districts and cross-border markets, not only in ministerial rooms.
The Executive Council.
Agenda 2063, delivered at grassroots.
AfCFTA, the Great African Museum, Encyclopedia Africana, peace and security, climate resilience — ATLI convenes traditional authority around the initiatives that will define the century.
From continental problem to continental impact.
- Poor grassroots understanding and participation in African Union initiatives.
- Absence of a legitimate continental body of traditional leaders.
- Strengthen ATLI as facilitating institution.
- Establish the African Traditional Leaders Union (ATLU).
- High-level dialogue platform for African traditional leaders.
- ATLU Constitutive Act and protocols for membership.
- Stronger ATLI operations and governance.
- Formal establishment of ATLU.
- Greater unity, peace, integration and accelerated, sustainable development across Africa.