Wizkid, Davido, Tems, and Ayra Starr Are Turning Prince George's County Into the Diaspora's Biggest Party

The DMV is about to become the center of the diaspora. Afro Plus Fest, billed as the world's largest Afro-Caribbean and Hip-Hop festival, returns for Labor Day weekend, and the 2026 lineup keeps getting bigger. On July 13, organizers announced that Tems and Ayra Starr, two of the biggest names in African music, have been added as headliners, joining an already stacked bill.

The three-day festival runs Friday, September 4 through Sunday, September 6 at the Northwest Stadium Complex in Landover, Maryland, in the heart of Prince George's County. The headline nights are set, with Davido on Friday, Alkaline on Saturday, and Wizkid on Sunday, and the addition of Tems and Ayra Starr only raises the ceiling.

The full roster reads like a who's who of global Black music, spanning Afrobeats, Hip-Hop, dancehall, amapiano, soca, and R&B. Alongside the headliners, the bill includes Lil Baby, Latto, Chief Keef, Sexyy Red, Tiwa Savage, Olamide, Adekunle Gold, Sarkodie, Ruger, Victony, Fridayy, Spice, Dexta Daps, and many more, performing across multiple stages, with room for up to 40,000 fans a day.

This is a major leap from where it started. The festival launched in 2025 as a one-day event at RFK Stadium in Washington, drawing roughly 20,000 people and generating an estimated 10 million dollars in local economic impact. Now it has expanded to three days at a larger venue, with organizers expecting attendance as high as 120,000 across the weekend, which could make it one of the largest Black music and cultural events on the East Coast.

Founder Michael Awosanya framed the growth as a response to the community itself. This year is bigger because the community demanded it be bigger, he said. This one is for the people who raised us. The move is a partnership with the Prince George's County Executive Office, a recognition that the county has become one of the country's leading hubs for Black culture and entrepreneurship.

The experience reaches beyond the music too, with high fashion activations, immersive cultural experiences, and a marketplace featuring Black-owned brands and local DMV creators, so the economic opportunity flows back into the community that hosts it. For a region as deeply Black and deeply international as the DMV, a festival built around diasporic pride landing right here in Prince George's County is a homecoming as much as a concert. Tickets and vendor applications are available through the festival's official site.