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AfroFuture Moves Away From El Wak Stadium in 2026, Announces Permanent Creative Hub in Accra
The festival will take a break from its traditional El Wak Stadium venue this December as AfroFuture prepares to open Future Club, a year-round creative compound at 1 Shaishi, Accra.
ACCRA, GHANA – November 2026 – AfroFuture has announced that its 2026 festival will not take place at El Wak Stadium this December. Instead, the cultural platform is set to introduce Future Club, its first permanent creative home, located at 1 Shaishi in Accra.
The announcement marks the beginning of AfroFuture’s tenth-anniversary celebrations, with the festival expected to return to El Wak Stadium in December 2027 as the centrepiece of the milestone year.
After nine years of building one of Africa’s most recognised cultural festivals, AfroFuture is expanding its vision beyond the annual December experience. The organisation is transitioning towards a year-round creative platform focused on live entertainment, cultural experiences, brand partnerships and deeper engagement with African and diaspora communities.
As part of this expansion, AfroFuture also plans to introduce AfroFuture Intelligence, a new research arm that will share insights into the lifestyles, interests and spending habits of its global audience.
Future Club: AfroFuture’s New Permanent Home
Spanning approximately 1.5 acres, Future Club is designed as a year-round creative compound where people can connect, create, learn, relax and experience African culture.
The facility will feature bars, a kitchen, a main stage, daytime activities, a recurring marketplace, and rotating art and fashion showcases. Designed to serve both Accra residents and the African diaspora, the venue will operate with a members-house experience while remaining accessible to the public through memberships and individual event tickets.
Young Jonn, Victony and Jazzwrld to Headline December Experiences
This December, Future Club will host a series of experiences that bring together the music, fashion, art, food and entertainment elements traditionally associated with AfroFuture.
The AfroFuture Residency will feature standalone concerts with a capacity of 3,000 people, headlined by award-winning songwriter and producer Young Jonn, Afrobeats sensation Victony, and Amapiano hitmakers Jazzwrld.
Beyond the concerts, visitors can expect a variety of activities, including art and fashion showcases, food experiences, daytime programming, film screenings, poetry slams and live recordings of Adesope Live and other mainstream African-led podcasts.
The programme will also feature AfroFuture’s New Year’s Eve celebration, extending the experience into the beginning of 2027.
A New Chapter for AfroFuture
Speaking about the development, Culture Management Group Founder and CEO Abdul Karim Abdullah described Future Club as the next phase of the organisation’s journey after nearly a decade of hosting its annual festival.
“For nine years we built a festival at a stadium and took it down days later. Future Club is what we build when we are not taking it down. Accra has wonderful places to eat and to dance, but very few places to simply be. Opening a home for the culture as we enter our tenth year is the proudest way we could begin the next ten,” he said.
Membership at Future Club will officially open during its grand opening, with every opening-night ticket holder receiving a one-year membership.
Future Club will continue operating throughout the festive season and into the new year, serving as the first of several anniversary milestones leading up to AfroFuture’s anticipated return to El Wak Stadium in December 2027.
Further announcements regarding the anniversary celebrations and upcoming experiences are expected in the coming months.
About AfroFuture
AfroFuture is a Pan-African cultural platform dedicated to celebrating African and diaspora creativity. Founded in Accra in 2017 as Afrochella, the organisation has evolved from an annual festival into a year-round cultural platform spanning live experiences, brand storytelling and cultural intelligence.
With editions in Accra, Detroit, Johannesburg and Zanzibar, alongside activations across the United States, AfroFuture has welcomed audiences from dozens of countries and established partnerships with leading global platforms and institutions, contributing to Ghana’s cultural economy.
About Culture Management Group
Culture Management Group is a Pan-African cultural infrastructure company operating across live events, creative, digital and media, and cultural intelligence. It is the parent company of the AfroFuture platform.
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