Ken Agyapong
Afrochella Co Founder
Biography
Ken Agyapong Jr (Kenny) is a Ghanaian-American Entrepreneur and a Philanthropist.
He attended public High School in the Bronx, New York and graduated top of his class. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management from Utica College of Syracuse in 2012. He further his education at Johnson Wells University, Providence Rhode Island in 2014 where he received his Master of Business Administration in Business Administration.
Kenny began his career in events and entertainment Management by organizing
major parties while studying at Utica College of Syracuse in his dorm room.
As a child of first-generation African immigrants, his West African roots are present in everything. He moved to Ghana in 2014 to work. As the Director of Net2TV a subsidiary of Kencity Group, a company owned by his family.
In 2015 Abdul; his good friend from New York, came up with an idea to have a festival in Ghana and consulted Kenny to partner him to plan it. After two years of research and planning.
They settled on an afro-festival dubbed Afrochella. The maiden Afrochella took place in the year 2017 at the Polo Club in Accra- Ghana, and has become the biggest culture festival in West Africa under the company ‘Culture Management Group’.