AGOA Festival
A Glimpse of Africa provides a platform that brings people together to celebrate, educate, and share the diverse rich African cultures through food, music, dance, fashion, art & crafts, and other community activities. Our annual festival is the largest African Cultural Festival in West Michigan with an attendance of over 4,000 people
Join US!
Date: August 6, 2022
Time: 10:30am - 10:00pm
Find the festival at Rosa Parks Circle:
Rosa Parks Circle, 135 Monroe Center St NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Festival activities
Experience authentic cuisine from different nations throughout Africa.
Celebrate Local African and African inspired fashion on the runway.
Spend the day watching our DJ's, Bands, Fashion show, and Interactive Events
Booths with local and international artists sharing their crafts.
Traditional Face painting, Dance Lessons, and Musical activities to involve people of all ages
Explore previous years
2020 Highlights
Even with Covid-19 creating new road blocks, we safely celebrated the many cultures of Africa. Even though the event was smaller in scale, the reasons to celebrate were larger!
2019 Highlights
Our monumental first year! For the first time we celebrated and shared the many cultures of Africa with our beloved town of Grand Rapids.
