Pa Gya! 2025 Opens on Friday 17th October

The 2025 edition of Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra (17th to 19th October 2025) opens at Goethe-Institut Ghana, Cantonments, Accra on Friday 17th October 2025.

The opening ceremony starts at 5.30 PM and wlll immediately be followed by programming, starting with the headline event, Past Forward: Archives, Photos and Storytelling: Judith Opoku-Boateng in conversation with Prof Esi Sutherland-Addy, with subsequent sessions of poetry performance by Babs Gons and the dramatic reading of Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond's novel My Parent's Marriage performed by Foundspace Productions.

Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra is a three day literary arts festival featuring literary activities and exhibitions: readings, panel discussions, poetry performances, lectures, story-telling sessions, book launches, literary prize awards, comics and graphic novels, exhibitions and more.

Pa Gya! is organised by Writers Project of Ghana, Goethe-Institut Ghana and Foundation for Contemporary Art-Ghana.

The festival acknowledges with thanks the support of our major sponsors for this year: Goethe-Institut Ghana, the EU Delegation to Ghana, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ghana, the Embassy of Ireland in Nigeria and Ghana, and Culture Ireland. Pa Gya! is also proud to be a partner to Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, sponsored by the British Council.

The festival also received support from Bravehearts Expeditions and C.Woermann Ghana Ltd, with extra location space provided by dot.ateliers and the Bulgarian Cultural Centre.

The festival acknowledges the media partnership of Citi FM and Channel 1 TV. Extra scheduling solutions were provided by Mergelabs.io.

About
Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra is a three day multi-event literary arts festival with activities such as book readings and launches, talks, performances, prize awards, theatre performances, exhibitions, a book market and many more.

The first edition of the festival was in 2017 and we mark the ninth consecutive edition this year. The dates are 17th to 19th October 2025.