The annual WOMBA Accra Street Arts Festival has begun on the High Streets, Beach Road, JamesTown and Korle Gonno streets in Accra.

The week-long festival which climaxes on Sunday is expected to draw over 100, 000 of the capital city’s indigenes onto the streets to celebrate culture, arts, exhibition of paintings and poetry.

WOMBA which literally means we are coming in the Ga dialect is aimed at showcasing talents in arts and culture, paintings and music and poetry and drama.

At the launch on Monday at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly Hall, Mr Alex Ntiamoah Boakye, Chief Coordinator noted that the festival will expose Accra beautiful scenery through wonderful paintings on walls and on streets, decorations on buildings, talents exhibition in music and the Ga culture and poetry recitations.

“We are also looking at the festival being used to preach peace and unity, before, during and after the December 2024 elections,” he stated.

He revealed that over 100,000 indigenes in and outside Greater Accra will participate in the festival and that will also bring the capital city into a standstill.

Exhibitors are expected to showcase Ga culture, avant garde music, arts, paintings and poetry.

“Accra will come alive with the paintings of the streets, the walls and some spaces transformed into stages for artistes to create their best pieces of arts and performances,” Mr Ntiamoah noted

Exhibitors of various arts, food vendors and pub operators will not be left out and the fisherfolks and boxers which are the marquee of the JamesTown and Bukom lifestyle of the people will also be showcased.

The theme of this year's WOMBA Accra Street Arts Festival is ‘Continuing, connecting the threads of arts, culture and community’.

The weekend of Saturday and Sunday of the festival is expected to witness multitudes converging on the John Evans Atta Mills High Street to dance and sing to music and admire the paintings and arts.