It has been a great 12 months for Joshua. He continues to head up White & Case’s Africa practice. This means he now advises corporates, governments, and financial institutions on some of the most ground-breaking transactions across the region, and makes him one of the most powerful commercial lawyers on the continent. 

Additionally, he has begun his term as Co-Chair of the Africa Investors Group to which he was appointed in January 2023. The group is responsible for steering and increasing the £15bn worth of trade between the continent and the UK. 

As a member of the Advisory Board of the Africa Investment Summit, Joshua is overseeing the UK Prime Minister’s upcoming Africa Investment Summit, which will take place in London in 2024. The summit will bring together heads of state from 24 African countries together with British and African business leaders, creating a platform to further boost trade and investment between the UK and Africa.

Joshua has not always rubbed shoulders with Africa’s elite. Of Ghanian descent, he grew up in one of South London’s most deprived areas and went to an inner-city state school. “It was quite challenging and my secondary school, at that time, had one of the worst records in the UK,” he has said. 

Therefore, launching the Siaw Foundation, which provides academic scholarships and mentoring to disadvantaged students across the UK and Africa, from secondary school through to university, holds a deep personal significance for Joshua. 

He is also an ambassador for Mothers2Mothers (M2M), an NGO that employs women living with HIV in Africa as community health workers. Joshua was appointed an MBE in 2020.