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About Us

We believe that sustainability, resilient urban projects, and profitability, go hand in hand.

At Afrika Property Consulting Ltd, we place sustainability and communities at the heart of our actions while ensuring that our clients achieve an optimum return on investment.

Our mission is to reconnect people with places and help create environmentally friendly and resilient urban projects designed to address today’s problems and anticipate the needs of the future.

Working with us lets you tap into years of local and international property development and management expertise and gives you access to a comprehensive service that handles your development or operational needs from A-Z.

No matter the size and scope of your project, we provide industry-leading advice that protects your interests and helps you create better places for people to live, interact, or work.

Our Vision & Our Mission​

Our Vision

To contribute to a more sustainable and liveable future by designing inclusive, resilient and commercially viable urban projects.

Our Mission

To exceed, and align, our client’s expectations with the needs of the planet and communities, and create places that put a smile on people’s faces.

Our Values

We Help Build Communities

Whether we are called upon to advise on the management of properties or to develop a project, our personalised approach keeps people, and the community at large, top of mind. Throughout our processes, we ensure that living spaces are designed, first and foremost, for people.

We Believe in Results

We put our client’s interests first and offer strategic, informed and impartial advice to give you an advantage over the competition, and to please your customers...

We Care for the Environment

We believe that we have a responsibility towards the community, the island and the planet to make sure the projects we work on are sustainable.

We Build for the Future

We are committed to studying today’s trends to anticipate the needs of tomorrow (and finding creative and sustainable ways to make them happen.)

Meet the Team

Afrika Gilbert

Gilbert Sunglee

Founder

Gilbert has worked with one of Mauritius’s most important property development and management companies for over a decade.

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Afrika Derek

Derek Chittenden

Consultant and Director of BlueGreen Planning + Design

“How can cities perform like forests?” is a question Derek tries to answer with every urban project and development he touches.

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Gilbert Sunglee

Founder

Gilbert has worked with one of the most important property development and management companies for over a decade.

From successfully managing properties to designing placemaking precincts and repositioning historical buildings, his experience gives him unique insight into what makes the local market “tick”.

A strong proponent of the customer-centric approach, Gilbert has applied his project management philosophy across various industries to create fair and supportive work environments for staff members and tenants while converting low to no-yield properties into performing ones.

Whether you’re thinking of bringing in a concept from abroad or developing one from scratch, you can count on his expertise to make it fit right into the Mauritian context and deliver results.

Notable Projects
  • The refurbishment and repositioning of existing properties e.g the refurbishment and introduction of a food and beverage precinct in a 108 years old property in the centre of Curepipe- lead a team of professionals.
  • The conversion of old buildings in the heart of Port Louis into a vibrant place for food and specialised retail.
  • The Restoration of historical buildings in Port Louis.

Derek Chittenden

Consultant and Director of BlueGreen Planning + Design

“How can cities perform like forests?” is a question Derek tries to answer with every urban project and development he touches.                 

Growing up in Zimbabwe, Derek developed a love for Africa and its wilderness, which led him to become a committed environmentalist with a passion for creating sustainable projects that positively impact the planet. Over the years, he has worked on many groundbreaking and innovative developments across South Africa, Costa Rica, Seychelles, Comoros Islands, Tanzania, and more.

Today, Derek offers his experience in sustainable planning, urban design, conservation and development planning, regenerative system design, and more to our clients. If you want to bring a project to life that is in complete harmony with the needs of the planet and that enhances today’s communities and the future, he’s the guy that can make it happen.

Notable Projects

  • Specialist consultant to the East Coast Economic Region of Malaysia to assist in tourism development master planning for a 35km stretch of coastline on the South China Sea.
  • Advised the Government of Seychelles regarding a development control strategy for the islands, and worked on an urban design, landscape and heritage strategy for the capital city of Victoria.
  • Created a development strategy for a new town on a large area (3,500 Ha) on the north coast of the Comoros main Island; incorporating a sustainable agricultural network, a range of residential opportunities, and tourism use, set within an extensive natural systems web.
  • Worked on the ‘Capricorn’ Science and Technology Park in Cape Town. A large industrial estate developed around a created wetland feature.
  • Currently involved in the master planning and detailed urban design for a large (600 Ha)mixed use urban development in Lusaka, Zambia, for NAPSA (the State Pension Fund), as well as development planning for other exclusive residential estates in the city such as ‘Lion’s Hill Estate’.