Afrochella was conceived from a woefully-flopped event – Co-founder recounts
A co-founder of one of Africa’s biggest arts festival ‘Afrochella’, Abdul Karim Abdullah, has narrated how the festival was birthed.
He said the event was conceived from a flopped event.
In an interview with Noella Kharyne Yalley on the JoyNews ‘Xclusives’ show, he said his first experience with event management in Ghana was during ‘Shiny Beach’, a beach rave that was unsuccessful due to lack of due diligence by him and the organising team.
“So the Big 5; we got everyone on the team to invest in what we were doing and, for a lot of those guys, they were Ghanaians but it was their first time in Ghana in a very long time – so, we put together the event