The Kumasi Akoben Film Festival and Awards (KAFF) which took place at the Round Pavilion of the Golden Tulip Hotel Kumasi has come to a successful end. The august awards ceremony was put together by ...

Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Hon . Abla Dzifa Gomashie has urged Kumawood actors and filmmakers to use ...

Ghanaian film producer Samuel Darko, known in the industry as Samdakus, has expressed displeasure over the use of the name Kumawood in a new filmmakers’ association formed in the Ashanti Region. The ...

India has its Bollywood and Nigeria, Nollywood. Even New Zealand has a Wellywood. In Ghana, films made in Kumasi and the surrounding region go by a similar shorthand -- Kumawood. The cultural heart of ...

The jargon "Kumahood" is the name tagging the Kumasi-based movie producers who produces the local dialect (Twi) movies in the country. Though, producers in this small industry are making it in the ...

The Kumawood actors who attended the meeting with John Dramani Mahama disappointed Arnold Asamoah Baidoo, an entertainment journalist and pundit, who also praised Abeiku Santana for denouncing the ...

Ghanaian filmmaker and visionary behind the once-thriving Kumawood Awards, Mr. Samuel Darko—widely known in the industry as SamDakus—has finally broken his silence on why the prestigious award scheme ...

Ex-Kumawood actor Cyborg, now an evangelist, was spotted preaching in Kumasi, sharing his past in illegal mining and his ...

The government of Ghana has launched a Film Fund in the 2026 budget to revive the local film industry, including the Kumawood scene, which ...

Films from Kumasi have improved in quality, President John Mahama has observed. Ghana’s culturally dignified city of Kumasi is the home of the Akan movie industry known as Kumawood. Though “Kumawood” ...

“Action!” comes the call. Four actors are fighting. The leading man’s character is ostensibly there because his boss is looking for love, and has hired him to go to a woman’s village and test her ...

Akrobeto has turned 63 years old, and celebrated with a video in which he dressed like a chief from Northern Ghana. His video ...