2024-25 Annual Report

This report covers December 2024 to December 2025, Inkundla Spaces’ second full year of programming.

Monthly community events ran at rotating venues across Freetown, every month, without cancellation. The open mic series reached six provincial locations: Kenema, Bo, Waterloo, Blama, Lunsar, and Foredugu. A new series launched in Goderich in May 2025. Trivia Tuesdays ran at Mango Peak throughout the year. The second Inkundla Arts Festival took the stage 31 October to 2 November at Mango Peak, under the theme Mind Matters: Stories That Heal, and Rise & Riot found its 2025 champion in Salma. Every event that was planned ran. On a budget that had no business working.

Outside of our own stages, we completed a creative communications project with AVSI Foundation Sierra Leone, producing jingles in Krio, Mende, and Temne and staging community dramas in Waterloo, Congo Town, and Pujehun to support a clean cooking behaviour change campaign. The I Anthology, co-published with LitFest Harare, put 20 Sierra Leonean and Zimbabwean poets in print.

The year ran on community support, partner sponsorship, and internal investments. Atlantic Lumley Hotel sponsored Wi Kreative Playgron across six months. Friends of Sierra Leone and One Village Partners funded the provincial open mic circuit. Pay-as-you-can entry kept our Freetown stages open to everyone.

What’s in the PDF is the full picture: what we ran, who funded it, what it cost, and what we’re building next.

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2023-24 Annual Report

A Year of Creative Growth: Celebrating Connection, Expression, and Impact

From December 2023 to 2024, Inkundla Spaces embarked on a transformative journey, fostering creativity, connection, and empowerment across Sierra Leone. From launching our first Pop Up Spaces event to hosting the inaugural Inkundla Arts Festival, we created platforms that brought together artists, audiences, and communities in vibrant celebrations of art and culture. Through projects like Wi Kreative Playgron, Rise & Riot Poetry Slam, and our Open Mic Series, we amplified diverse voices, showcased untapped talent, and bridged the gap between underserved areas and the broader creative landscape.

This report captures the milestones, challenges, and impact of our first year, highlighting the resilience and passion that define our work. Download it below to explore how we’re shaping a thriving, inclusive creative ecosystem in Sierra Leone and beyond.