The very first summit of the Platform for African Democrats from 21-23 June 2023. The event was attended by more than 50 leaders from Africa, Latin America, Poland and the Baltic States. At the end of the event, the Gdańsk Declaration was adopted unanimously. It lays out the commitment of all delegates to ending authoritarianism and introducing democracy, accountability and transparency.

The Platform for African Democrats met for their second official meeting in the Parliamentary Precinct in Cape Town on 22-23 March 2024, bringing together over 50 political and civil society leaders from across the African continent alongside president of Ukraine and leader of the Orange Revolution, Viktor Yushchenko, and the Venezuelan leader Leopoldo Lopez.

The third official meeting of the Platform for African Democrats took place in Angola on 14 March 2025. The Benguela event, entitled ‘The Future of Democracy in Africa’, was to build on previous PAD summits in Gdansk, Poland and Cape Town, South Africa, where ways of bringing greater openness and democratic accountability in the face of growing authoritarianism were discussed.