AfroFuture Opens Future Club, Its First Permanent Home, in Accra

By Dani Reyes, November 13, 2026

What's opening

AfroFuture, the Pan-African cultural platform that started in Accra in 2017 as Afrochella, is opening its first permanent home. Future Club sits on roughly 1.5 acres at 1 Shiashie in Accra, and the venue page lists its opening for Wednesday, December 16.

The compound takes the place of this year's festival weekend. AfroFuture's announcement says the festival will not take place at El Wak Stadium in December 2026 and returns there in December 2027 as the centrepiece of its tenth-anniversary year.

Inside the compound

AfroFuture describes Future Club as "a third place for the city and the diaspora, somewhere to relax, create, learn, eat and belong." The announcement says it is open to everyone, through membership or event-by-event tickets.

The Future Club page breaks the site into four spaces. The Commons is a lounge with a sound stage, studios, a recurring farmers market and rotating art and fashion. The Beehive is billed as "An intimate club space for elevated nightlife." The Diaspora Den is set aside for those returning and those arriving for the first time, and The Kitchen has a café from 7 a.m. and bars. The page also lists morning workouts, hair braiding, a barbershop and custom tailoring on site.

The December lineup

The AfroFuture Residency brings standalone 3,000-capacity concerts to the compound, according to the announcement, which calls Victony an "Afrobeats sensation" and Young Jonn an "award-winning songwriter and producer." The venue page lists Victony: The Bonfire Experience on Monday, December 28, and Young Jonn Live on Tuesday, December 29.

Around the concerts, AfroFuture lists live recordings of Adesope Live and other African-led podcasts, film screenings, poetry slams, the market and a New Year's Eve party. The announcement says every opening-night ticket holder becomes a member for a full year.

In their words

"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, the parent company of AfroFuture, in the announcement. "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."