The mission of this festival is to promote peace, love, unity and to stimulate benevolence and positive exchanges among Africans, Diaspora Africans, and their well-wishers everywhere.

We strive to do this through music, dance, food, array of fun and exciting cultural activities. The festival also strives to support the community by providing different types of charitable services.

We want the festival to accommodate all 54 African countries and other countries that embrace African culture.

To have your cultural group or Country participate at the festival, email africanfestnyc@gmail.com​

The inspiration for convening AFRICANFEST-NYC can be traced to the increase in African population in Staten Island and the need to unite with our brothers and sisters in Diaspora for development of ideas on how to better work together to uplift ourselves and our community without loosing our cultural heritage in the process.

Preparation for AFRICANFEST-NYC took off at the famous McDonald Restaurant on Bay Street, Staten Island, New York 10304 in June 2016, when O. Ajayi and O. Ceesay (the festival organizers) met to discuss the festival and agreed to further discussed after returning from the August 13th & 14th, 2016, Annual FESTAFRICA in Silver Spring, MD.