The UK's biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture, Africa Oyé Festival, makes its return to Liverpool on 20th and 21st June this summer with an amazing line-up: Fatoumata Diawara, Patoranking, Janet Kay, Fulu Miziki, Ghorwane, Nana Benz Du Togo, Kizaba, Kobo Town, Awale Jant Band and many more!
The Sunday night headliner for Oyé ’26 is Grammy-nominated guitarist and singer Fatoumata Diawara, who is set to make a triumphant return to Liverpool’s Sefton Park this summer - fifteen years after her first UK festival performance at Africa Oyé!
Making his Liverpool debut at this year's festival is multiple award-winning Nigerian musician, Patoranking. He is an MTV Africa Music Awards winner and earned the prestigious accolade of being included in Forbes Africa's ‘30 Under 30 class of 2020’.
The first Black British female reggae artist to have a number one in the UK, Janet Kay, also makes her Oyé debut in 2026. The multi-award-winning artist is best known for her stellar hit single ‘Silly Games’, which placed her in the Music Guinness Book of Records as the first Black British born Female Reggae artist to hit the top of the UK Pop Charts.
Oyé seeks to redress the balance and highlight the fantastic range of cultures in Africa
With too many negative representations of Africa entrenched in images of war, disease, poverty and famine, Oyé seeks to redress the balance and highlight the fantastic range of cultures, foods, music and artists that make this great continent one of the most vibrant and inspiring in the world.
This isn’t just the largest festival of African and Caribbean music in Britain, it’s the best – The Sunday Times
