Who We Are

We gather peoplearound a sound.

Ekoya Afrika is a curatorial house for live music, built on the continent and carried into the diaspora. We work in small rooms, with short guest lists, and with artists who have something to say. Everything else follows from that.

Our Vision

“We are here to hold space

for music that carries memory.

To seat a hundred people close enough to hear a singer breathe,

and to send them home with something they did not arrive with.”

Ekoya Afrika

What We Hold To

Four things we keep returning to.

01

Rooted

Our work begins with where we come from. The music we programme carries lineage, language and place.

02

Soulful

We choose feeling over spectacle. A room is working when it goes quiet in the right places.

03

Intimate

We keep guest lists short on purpose. Proximity is not a luxury tier. It is the whole idea.

04

Timeless

We are not chasing a season. We build evenings people still talk about years later.

The Story

It started in a room this size.

Ekoya Afrika began with a living room, a borrowed piano and about twenty people who stayed far later than anyone planned. There was no stage and no sound engineer, only the understanding that everyone in the room had agreed to listen.

We have kept that agreement as the rooms have grown. Every gathering still starts with the same two questions: who needs to be heard, and how close can we seat them.

Today we curate live sessions and full evenings across the continent, working with musicians, cooks, designers and rooms that move at the pace we like: slow, warm, and worth the trip.

Next Gathering

Come and sit with us.

Rooms fill quietly and early. See what is coming, or spend an evening with a session first.