About Nurse Hub Africa
The home of Africa’s next generation of nurse leaders, innovators and creators
Nursing is one of the most trusted professions in the world and one of the least visible. The public sees the uniform. It rarely sees the nurse who is also a researcher, a founder, a writer, a technologist, an educator, a builder of things.
Nurse Hub Africa exists for that nurse.
We are a Pan-African nursing organisation, registered as a Community Interest Company in the United Kingdom and as a non-profit in Nigeria. Our work is simple to describe and difficult to do: to raise the status of the African nursing profession, and to give African nurses who are more than their clinical role the platform, the training and the recognition to be seen without leaving the profession that formed them.
How we started
Nurse Hub Africa began in Nigeria in 2017, in a WhatsApp group.
There was no funding, no office and no structure. There was a group of nurses who wanted more than the ceiling they had been handed, and a founder who kept turning up. For years the work ran informally, powered by evenings, weekends and shifts, before it became the registered organisation it is today.
That beginning still shapes how we work. We build with nurses rather than for them, we start before the resources arrive, and we take the profession seriously enough to expect more of it.
What we believe
African nursing knowledge moves in both directions.
Diaspora nurses carry specialist training, systems experience and international standards home. Nurses practising at home carry contextual mastery, resourcefulness and clinical judgement that the rest of the world needs and rarely credits. Neither is the senior partner. Nurse Hub Africa is where the two meet.
We call this our Knowledge Exchange Principle, and it sits underneath everything we run.
What we have done
Our work has always begun in communities rather than in boardrooms.
We have carried outreach into five Nigerian states, reaching nurses in person where they train and where they practise. More than a hundred nurses are registered with us directly, and many more have been reached through sessions, schools and community events where no register was ever taken.
We have worked with over ten institutions, including schools of nursing, secondary schools and universities, speaking to students at the point where career decisions are actually made rather than years after the fact.
We convened the first Pan-African Healthcare Professionals Award, which brought together more than two hundred students alongside practitioners and public officials to honour healthcare professionals whose work usually goes unnamed.
We have produced professional standards work too, including a consultation response on aesthetic medicine and a nurse competency and scope framework for non-surgical aesthetic practice in Nigeria, because raising the status of a profession means shaping the rules it practises under.
What we run
Nurse Hub Africa Academy delivers training built for African nurses and taught, wherever possible, by African nurses. Our programmes are designed around outcomes rather than certificates, with a clear answer to the only question that matters: what can you do, and earn, at the end of this that you could not do before?
The Pan-African Healthcare Awards recognise excellence across African healthcare, convening nurses, clinicians, lawmakers and institutions in one room.
Roots is our print publication for African healthcare professionals, because some records deserve to exist on paper.
Where we are going
We are building the infrastructure our profession never had. Training that leads somewhere. Platforms that make nurses visible. A record of African nursing excellence that does not depend on anyone else deciding we are worth documenting.
If you are a nurse building beyond the bedside, you are already one of us.