Event information
AfrikaBurn is a festival that features a community of participants who come together to create art, costume, performance, theme camps, music, mutant vehicles and much, much more.
All of this is created through a volunteer and gifting culture. The main annual AfrikaBurn event takes place in the Tankwa Karoo, located between the Northern Cape and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa, usually at the end of April every year.
AfrikaBurn’s aim is to be radically inclusive and accessible to anyone. The touchstone of value in their culture is always immediacy: experience before theory, moral relationships before politics, survival before services, roles before jobs, ritual before symbolism, work before vested interest, participant support before sponsorship.
The theme in 2025 is Out of the Blue, emphasising a return to the sea, the horizon and the sky, anything under the sun and anything under the sea. The theme is also about welcoming the completely unexpected, the total unawares, and the beautiful surprises.
Previous artist line-up for Afrikaburn included Johannes Lennon, Elvis Pretorius, Tina Tankwa and Lindiwe Gaga.
