President John Dramani Mahama has said government will allocate funding for the creative and cultural sectors in the next fiscal budget.

During a media encounter on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, he stated that future policy initiatives would directly support 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.

Responding to a question about the state of the creative arts sector, President Mahama emphasized significance of the sector to the advancement of the country.

“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,” he explained.