AfroFuture will not hold its festival at El Wak Stadium this December. Instead, the organisers announced on Monday, 9 November, that they are opening Future Club, the brand’s first permanent home, at 1 Shiashie in Accra from Wednesday, 16 December. The festival itself is due back at El Wak in December 2027 as part of AfroFuture’s tenth-anniversary year.
The news came in a thread on X and an official statement on the AfroFuture website, which describes Future Club as a year-round creative compound of roughly 1.5 acres with bars and a kitchen, a main stage, daytime programming, a recurring market, and rotating art and fashion.
What is on this December
According to the statement, “everything the festival brought to El Wak” moves to Future Club for the season under the AfroFuture Residency. It brings standalone 3,000-capacity concerts from Young Jonn, Victony and the Amapiano act Jazzwrld & Thukuthela, alongside live podcast recordings including Adesope Live, film screenings, poetry slams and AfroFuture’s New Year’s Eve party.
Listings on the AfroFuture website put Amapiano & Brunch with Jazzwrld and Thukuthela on 20 December, Rcee Live on 22 December, Victony Presents Bonfire on 28 December and Young Jonn Live on 29 December. Membership covers every residency concert and access to Future Club through 2027. It is listed at $350 (GH₵4,100), with an early-bird price of GH₵3,250, and day passes are also available.
‘A home for the culture’
“For nine years we built a festival at a stadium and took it down days later,” said Abdul Karim Abdullah, founder and chief executive of Culture Management Group, the company behind AfroFuture. “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.”
Founded in Accra in 2017 as Afrochella, the festival has become one of the biggest fixtures of Detty December. Its 2025 edition was held at El Wak Stadium on 28 and 29 December, with Rema and KiDi among the headliners, as reported by AmeyawDebrah.com, which also carried this week’s announcement. The organisers say further announcements will follow.
Will you be heading to Future Club this December, or will you wait for El Wak in 2027? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
