Nigerian musician-turned-entrepreneur Oluwatosin “Mr. Eazi” Ajibade is placing contemporary capital behind stay leisure in West Africa, pledging $2 million to develop new indoor and out of doors occasion venues in Accra, a transfer geared toward increasing the town’s capability to host large-scale performances year-round.
Mr. Eazi backs Accra venues
The announcement was made onstage throughout Detty Rave 7, Mr. Eazi’s annual year-end live performance, the place he referred to as for help from the Ghana Tourism Authority and framed the funding as a part of a broader effort to strengthen the enterprise of stay occasions throughout the area. Accra, lengthy seen as a cultural hub for music and style, nonetheless faces limits in relation to fashionable, purpose-built venues able to internet hosting world acts at scale.
Mr. Eazi’s profile as an entrepreneur has grown alongside his music profession. Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, publicly praised him at his September 2025 marriage ceremony to Temi Otedola, daughter of billionaire Femi Otedola, describing the artist as a pointy enterprise thoughts with operations spanning 18 African nations.
Excessive-production live performance, Detty Rave 7, attracts 1000’s
Detty Rave 7 underlined why the occasion has change into one among Africa’s most intently watched stay exhibits. Held alongside Spintex Street, the live performance ran from 6 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2025, into the early hours of Jan. 1, 2026, drawing 1000’s of attendees. Social media buzz centered on the graceful logistics, excessive manufacturing requirements and powerful crowd administration, areas that always problem massive occasions within the West and Central Africa area.
DJs, together with CiZA, Kelvin and DJ Spinall, stored the power excessive, whereas headline performances from Davido, Medikal, J Hus, Shallipopi, King Promise and Wande Coal anchored the night time. The primary 5,000 visitors obtained present objects, and the stage design, impressed by the Choplife griot masks, stood out as a central visible function. Designed by Dennis Osadebe Studio and executed by Dotun Popoola, the construction blended cultural motifs with up to date manufacturing.
Mr. Eazi grows multi-sector portfolio
Away from the stage, Mr. Eazi has spent latest years constructing a diverse portfolio of businesses. By means of his funding agency, Zagadat Capital, he has backed fintech corporations, home-services startups, magnificence manufacturers, gaming ventures, sports activities groups and actual property tasks, alongside music and leisure belongings. Dangote has gone as far as to foretell that the artist may rank among the many world’s wealthiest people within the years forward.
In September 2025, Mr. Eazi disclosed on X that Choplife Gaming, one among his ventures, had paid $11.7 million in taxes to Rwanda since 2022. The assertion got here as Rwanda tightened oversight of its playing sector, thus highlighting the latest growth of gaming companies. Mr Eazi stated the funds mirrored long-term funding in compliance and native operations.
Past capital and infrastructure, he continues to again expertise by emPawa Africa, an initiative that gives funding, mentorship and distribution help to rising artists. Collectively, the venue funding in Accra and his wider enterprise exercise level to a method rooted in constructing methods, not simply hits, throughout Africa’s artistic financial system.
