ICLEI convened a circular economy workshop to bring stakeholders and experts from African cities together. Through a combination of short presentations and interactive sessions, the workshop (1) built shared understanding of the concepts of circular development, resource nexus and urban metabolism, as well as their application in urban African contexts; (2) familiarised participants with useful tools and portals for analysing city resource performance; (3) showed evidence of these principles in action in Accra; (4) identified city needs related to urban resource management, and (5) collectively charted a way forward for building communities of practice around sustainable urban resource management in African cities.