Festivals & Events
The Old Playbook Says Keep Your Secrets. This Women’s Summit Says Give Them Away.
For years, the unspoken rule of getting ahead was simple: guard your contacts, protect your knowledge, and climb the ladder alone. It created a lot of successful, exhausted women. It also left a lot of other women standing at the bottom, looking up.
This March, a gathering in Accra is betting on a different formula.
The 8th National Women’s Summit & Expo (NWSE) lands at the Palms Convention Centre on Friday, 13 March 2026, and the people behind it are asking attendees to try something that might feel uncomfortable at first: give.
Not your money. Your time. Your contacts. Your hard-won wisdom.
The “Give to Gain” Mindset
The theme this year is “Give to Gain.” It is not one of those corporate slogans that sound nice and means nothing. It is a direct challenge to the scarcity mindset that tells women there is only one seat at the table.
Organizers are pushing the idea that success actually multiplies when you share it. If you mentor someone, you learn something. If you open a door for another woman, you build an ally. If you invest in a female founder, you grow the economy for everyone. It is a shift from asking “How do I get mine?” to asking “How do we build ours?”
More Than a Day of Speeches
If you have been to a few conferences in your time, you know the drill. Nice keynote. Warm coffee. A brochure you throw away on the way out.
NWSE has been running for seven years now, and the people who go actually seem to do things afterwards. It pulls in a mix you don’t often see in the same room: corporate board members sitting next to students who just started their first business, bankers chatting with creatives, founders looking for capital sitting across from the people who control it.
This year, they are leaning hard into the practical stuff. There will be the usual panels on leadership and entrepreneurship, but the focus is on access—access to money, access to networks, and access to the kind of advice you usually have to buy a very expensive lunch to get.
The Speed Mentorship Sessions
One of the more useful parts of the day is the speed mentorship. Imagine sitting down with a woman who has already made the mistakes you are about to make, and she tells you exactly how to avoid them in ten minutes. No fluff. No business card collecting. Just a quick, honest conversation that might change your direction.
Who Is Showing Up
The partners backing this thing are names you trust: Charterhouse, Geisha, and MTN Ghana, with support from Bayport, Standard Chartered, and Bel-Aqua. That mix matters. It signals that this is not a side project or a “women’s issue” event tucked away in a small hall. It is a mainstream business platform.
If You Want a Table
Organizers are also putting out the call for vendors. If you run a small business, a startup, or a brand trying to reach women who actually make decisions, the Expo floor might be worth your time. Spaces are limited, and they tend to go to people who book early rather than people who think about it.
Why Bother?
The world does not need another event where people take photos and post inspirational quotes. What it needs is the thing this summit is trying to manufacture: actual connection.
In a time when everyone is selling a course or guarding their “secret sauce,” the radical act might just be opening your mouth and sharing what you know.
When: Friday, 13 March 2026, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Where: Palms Convention Centre, La Palm Royal Beach Hotel
Registration: Open now
Vendor/Partnership Enquiries: 020 471 4598 or 024 646 9062
Festivals & Events
Compozers Fest Ghana Edition: Welcoming 2027 with Music in Accra
Pitch Accra sets the scene for a New Year’s Eve gathering that brings music lovers together as Ghana welcomes the first moments of 2027.
As the final hours of 2026 slip away, Accra will offer music lovers another reason to gather, celebrate and welcome a new year together. Compozers Fest Ghana Edition is scheduled for December 31, 2026, bringing the festive energy of New Year’s Eve to Pitch Accra.
Organised by December in Ghana, an events organiser with a growing following, the celebration offers an opportunity to experience Accra’s nightlife during one of the busiest periods on Ghana’s social calendar.
Music, Community and Celebration
Music has long been central to Ghanaian social life, accompanying celebrations, festivals and gatherings across generations. From highlife and hiplife to Afrobeats and contemporary African sounds, the country’s musical landscape reflects a continuing conversation between tradition and modern influences.
A festival held on New Year’s Eve provides a natural meeting point for these musical cultures and the people who enjoy them.
For Ghanaians returning home for the festive season, it offers another opportunity to reconnect with the city’s entertainment scene. International visitors can experience Accra’s year-end atmosphere alongside residents and members of the diaspora.
Although detailed information about the festival’s performers and programme has not been announced in the supplied listing, the event is scheduled to begin at 10 pm and continue into January 1, 2027.
Making New Year’s Eve Memorable
The venue, Pitch Accra, will host the gathering on Accra Road, Accra. Tickets also come with a Visa card promotion: eligible purchases receive 15 per cent back, with the refund processed within three to five working days after the event. The organiser states that tickets are non-refundable.
For visitors planning a festive-season trip, Compozers Fest Ghana Edition offers another event to consider when exploring Accra after dark.
As 2026 draws to a close, the celebration promises a chance to gather with friends, enjoy the city’s nightlife and begin 2027 in the company of fellow music lovers.
Festivals & Events
Amu Brown Rice Festival: Celebrating Harvest, History and Identity in Vane
The steady beat of drums fills the air as singing voices rise and dancers bring the streets of Vane to life. In this town in Ghana’s Volta Region, November brings more than the promise of a successful harvest.
It ushers in the Amu Brown Rice Festival, a celebration that connects the rewards of the land with memories of a historic victory that secured the community’s present homeland.
At the heart of the festival is rice, a crop that represents both agricultural achievement and the value of collective effort. As families and community members gather to mark the harvest, the occasion becomes an opportunity to celebrate the work of farmers and recognise the importance of food production to local life.
Yet the festival’s significance reaches beyond the fields. Its commemoration of a victory associated with securing the community’s homeland gives the celebration a deeper historical meaning. It recalls the struggles and determination behind the community’s settlement, connecting present generations with the experiences that shaped their identity.
The festivities feature drumming, dancing and singing, bringing traditional expression to the centre of community life.
A durbar of chiefs provides an important gathering point, bringing traditional leadership into the celebration and reinforcing the relationship between heritage, authority and communal belonging.
For younger generations, the festival offers an opportunity to encounter local history through shared participation rather than words alone.
For visitors, it provides a glimpse of how agricultural seasons, historical memory and traditional leadership continue to shape cultural life in Ghana.
As communities navigate social change, celebrations such as Amu Brown Rice help preserve inherited customs while creating space for people to gather, reconnect and pass their stories forward.
For anyone exploring Ghana beyond its familiar tourist attractions, a November visit to Vane offers a chance to experience a living tradition in which the harvest is not simply food, but a reminder of history, resilience and belonging.
Festivals & Events
The Turnup at Enzo: A Friday Night of Music and Good Vibes in Accra
When Friday night arrives in Accra, the city comes alive with music, conversation and the irresistible pull of a good night out.
On November 13, 2026, The Turnup at Enzo invites partygoers to gather for an evening of entertainment, social connection and lively nightlife at Enzo Accra on Boundary Road.
Organised by AFROWAVE 2019, an event organiser with 32 events and more than 1,600 total attendees listed on Eventbrite, the gathering promises an in-person experience built around music, fun and good company.
Scheduled for 8 pm to 11:30 pm, the three-and-a-half-hour event offers an opportunity to enjoy Accra after dark.
While the event details do not specify particular performers, musical genres or food offerings, its central appeal is familiar to anyone who has experienced Ghanaian social life: the pleasure of meeting friends, discovering new faces and sharing music in a relaxed setting.
Accra’s nightlife forms an important part of its contemporary cultural identity, bringing together residents, returning members of the diaspora and international visitors.

From Afrobeats and highlife nights to modern DJ-led parties, music provides a common language across generations and backgrounds.
The Turnup at Enzo offers visitors an opportunity to experience this social side of the capital.
For tourists, it could be a chance to connect with Accra beyond its historic landmarks, markets and beaches. For locals, it offers another reason to step away from the week’s routines and enjoy an evening with friends.
With Enzo Accra providing the setting, the focus is on showing up, enjoying the atmosphere and making memories through shared experiences.
If you’re planning a Friday night in Ghana’s capital, The Turnup at Enzo is worth considering. Gather your friends, bring your energy and make room for an evening of music, connection and Accra nightlife.
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