AfroFuture Moves Beyond the Festival: Future Club, Its First Permanent Home, Opens in Accra This December
The 2026 festival will not return to El Wak Stadium. In its place, a year-round creative compound opens at 1 Shiashie to launch AfroFuture's tenth-anniversary year.
ACCRA, GHANA, November 2026 | AfroFuture today announced that its festival will not take place at El Wak Stadium in December 2026. Instead, it will open Future Club, its first permanent home, at 1 Shiashie in Accra this December. The festival returns to El Wak in December 2027 as the centrepiece of AfroFuture's tenth-anniversary year.
AfroFuture has spent this year preparing for that anniversary and for what follows it: a platform that works year-round rather than for one weekend in December. That means more live experiences across the calendar and closer work with brand partners on telling stories. It also means putting nine years of knowledge about this audience to use. Later in the anniversary year, AfroFuture will begin sharing what it knows about how its audience lives and spends through AfroFuture Intelligence, a new research arm.
Future Club is where that begins. Set on roughly 1.5 acres, the year-round creative compound holds bars and a kitchen, a main stage, daytime programming, a recurring market, and rotating art and fashion. It is a third place for the city and the diaspora, somewhere to relax, create, learn, eat and belong. It carries the standard of a members house while keeping its doors open to everyone, through membership or event-by-event tickets.
This December, everything the festival brought to El Wak lives at Future Club. The AfroFuture Residency presents standalone 3,000-capacity concerts from award-winning songwriter and producer Young John, Afrobeats sensation Victony and Amapiano hitmakers Jazzwrld & Thukuthela. Around them run the market, the art and fashion showcases, the food and daytime programming, live recordings of Adesope Live and other mainstream African-led podcasts, film screenings, poetry slams and AfroFuture's New Year's Eve party.
"For nine years we built a festival at a stadium and took it down days later," said Abdul Karim Abdullah, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Culture Management Group. "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."
Membership opens with the grand opening, and every opening-night ticket holder becomes a member for a full year. Future Club carries through the festive season into the new year and is the first of several anniversary milestones, culminating in the festival's return to El Wak in December 2027. Further announcements will follow.
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About AfroFuture
AfroFuture is a Pan-African cultural platform celebrating African and diaspora creativity. Founded in Accra in 2017 as Afrochella, it has grown from an annual festival into a year-round platform spanning live experiences, brand storytelling and cultural intelligence, with editions in Accra, Detroit, Johannesburg, and Zanzibar, and activations across the United States. Since its founding it has welcomed a global audience from dozens of countries and built first-of-their-kind partnerships with leading global platforms and institutions, contributing meaningfully 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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