Afrochella is a festival designed to highlight & elevate thrilling and thriving millennial talent from and within Africa. The festival is an interactive event that encourages collaboration, explains and explores culture with a pioneering approach. This day features a festive celebration of our culture in the form of: Art & Fashion Installations, Live painting, The Best of African Cuisine and Live performances. The festival’s purpose is to tell the New Africa story from a native’s perspective. 

Kakum National Park, one of West Africa’s surviving tropical rain forests. Choose between a nature walk through the rain forest to discover the wide variety of exotic flora and fauna species and the medicinal values they offer or take a walk on the canopy walkway hanging above the forest ground 

Visit the site of “Donkor Nsuo”, the former Slave River and market, the final transit point for a large number of enslaved Africans. This is the final resting place for two ancestors whose mortal remains were returned from the USA and Jamaica and re-interred there. 

Learn about the relationship between the western slave traders and the African tribes that made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible. It is an opportunity to be up close with history – to stand in the dark and stuffy dungeons, imagining the experience and conditions that millions of Africans endured. 

Visit Ahwiaa, the wood carvers’ village, Ntonso, the home of Adinkra cloth, and Bonwire, the Kente weaving village. You will have an opportunity to see how African crafts are made and to buy directly from the artisans who make them. 

Participate in a naming ceremony of recognition, where a Ghanaian name is given to participants, and a gift presented as part of celebrating a new identity as a Ghanaian and a member of the local community. 

In the evening, you will be hosted by Fatmata Binta, popularly known as Chef Binta where you will experience dining on a mat. Chef Binta will share her history with you from ingredients to historical figures and more. You'll even get to understand why the mat is such an important part of Fulani dining. From yoghurt based drinks to herbal teas, what you drink is just as important as what you eat in the Fulani tradition.