Abdul Karim Abdullah is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Culture Management Group (CMG) and AfroFuture Festival formerly known as Afrochella Festival. Abdul holds a BS in Psychology, Biology from Syracuse University, and a master’s in public health from CUNY Hunter College.

Professionally Abdul is a certified Clinical Research Trial Manager. He has worked for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Syneos Health and Bristol Meyer Squibb managing financial budgets of $20+ Million. Abdul honed his project management skills and applied them to his passion for arts and culture. In 2017, he and his partners founded the Afrochella Festival.

Afrochella was a festival designed to highlight & elevate thrilling and thriving talent from and within Africa. The festival existed to foster engagement, to boost tourism within Ghana and Africa at large by providing a space for the diaspora to celebrate culture by appreciating African Music, Food, Art, and Culture curated from a native’s perspective. In 2019, the festival was cited as the direct reason for 16% of Ghana’s Tourists. In 2022 the festival was rebranded to AfroFuture Festival, serving the same purpose but ushering a new stride of Futurism for the collective black diaspora,

Abdul & his partners were named Goodwill Ambassador to Ghana in 2022 for their impact on the Ghana Tourism Sector. Abdul and Afrochella have been featured on BBC, CNN, Essence, Vogue, Forbes, GQ.