President John Dramani Mahama has hinted that the government will dedicate resources to Ghana’s creative and cultural sectors in the upcoming national budget.
Speaking at a media engagement on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, he highlighted fresh policy measures that will channel direct support into the creative industry.
“The Blackstar Experience will take off. They have been working on all the foundational issues and you will soon see a sign of it. In the next budget we are going to make some allocation for the creative arts, for the film fund, to support Kumawood and all the film makers, to support the music industry, to support the arts, and all that. We need to put our money where our mouths are, and I think that the creative arts are a good representation of our culture and who we are as a people,” he said.
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The president stressed the importance of creative industries when asked about the state of the sector, noting its potential to drive economic progress more rapidly than traditional areas of production.
“Creative industries create jobs faster than the traditional sectors that we have known. The cocoa sector or manufacturing creates one job; the creative sector, digitalisation, knowledge industry, arts and things would have created five jobs. And so that is an area in which we have to continue to invest. And that is why we created that as a ministry together with tourism,” President Mahama stated.
By pointing to the film fund, Kumawood, music and the arts, Mahama positioned the cultural space as central to national identity and job creation, stressing the need for stronger public investment to sustain its growth.
