One of Nigeria’s foremost financial institutions, Access
Bank celebrated the maiden edition of the Born in Africa Festival
(BAFEST) The festival which held at the Eko Atlantic City on December
16, 2018 and was produced by Livespot and had over 25,000 people in
attendance.
Social media has been abuzz with tweets and pictures from
fans at the venue. Over 300,000 tweets and Instagram posts were shared
between 12 noon on Sunday 16th and 4am on Monday 17th reaching over 3
Million individuals with the #BAFEST2018 and #BorninAfricaFest hashtags.
Thousands of fun lovers trouped into the venue of the festival in grand
style. Art lovers admired the artworks exhibited by some of Africa ’s
most talented visual artists; Uche Edochie, Ibe Ananaba, Isaac Emokpae,
and Tolu Aliki.
The mini Access Bank runway also afforded fashion lovers
the opportunity to walk on the runway, take pictures, admire beautiful
dresses and attires displayed by designers like Torlowei, Tiffany Amber,
Blingshiki and David Tlale. About 20 intriguing movies were screened,
film lovers sat comfortably in the screening room, patiently watching
movies being screened, with much applause and accolades for the
producers.
BAFEST2018 was a great avenue for networking as friends
reconnected and family bonded over food, drinks,, games, exhibitions and
much more. Food vendors also had a swell day attending to numerous
customers.
The infusion of music to fashion made the Born In Africa
Festival, music certainly meets runway, Falz The Bahd Guy opened the
show with classic performances from his hit songs. Other artistes lined
up for the show also brought their A-game to the stage with so much
energy. There was so much love for Olamide, Kizz Daniel, Yemi Alade,
Congo's finest Awilo Longomba, Tiwa Savage, Dbanj brought us from the
past to present with his catchy live performances, In true African
spirit, the audience at BAFEST showed so much love for South Africa's
finest poet and rapper, Sho Madjozi, she brought the roof down with her
hit singles, Huku and Wakanda Forever. Burna boy closed the show in a
grand style.
One of the best performances of the night was the suspended
drummers in the air, the performance was soul lifting the crowd asked
to see it again. MCs of the festival, Shody The Hypeman and d2Dotun did a
fantastic job getting the crowd engaged from the very beginning of the
show till the end.
DJ Crowd Kontroller was on the wheels of steels.
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