Akoo Show Choir

Akoo Show Choir has its home in Winneba, a university town on the Atlantic coast in Ghana. The choir has been founded by Francis Baffoe in 2012, has won a nation-wide television contest in 2014 and has already gained international experience on concert tours through Germany in 2013 and 2014.

In the language of the choir members, Akoo means parrot, and like a parrot, they have the ability to mimic tunes and sounds with their wonderful voices. So they call themselves the singing birds of West Africa.

Akoo Show Choir is dedicated to the traditions and the beauty of Ghanaian music, dance and percussion. At the same time, this group of talented musicians is eager to network inside and outside of Africa. In joint projects with Thabang Mokoena from South Africa and Eva Buckman, a German specialist for African music, the Akoos learn songs and dances from South Africa, Kenya and other African countries – creating a unique style of traditional and newly interpreted African gospels, spirituals and traditionals.

“It is our vision to travel all over the world and show people the richness of our own Ghanaian culture and of other African nations.” (Francis Baffoe)