In 2007 when Booyaka, the Exhibition & Event, was created, I decided to set up an office. Myself and a small team of people went to the premises which was located at 55 Lady Musgrave Road in Kingston.

We were preparing the new office, which was an old cottage-type structure. We began to scrape the walls in preparation for painting. I stood on a step-stool and started to pull off old papers and calendars that were pasted on the walls.

I reached up and tore off an old calendar that was directly above the entrance door. When I tore off the old calendar and looked, I literally SCREAMEEEEED out and was dumbfounded for a minute. When the team came running to see what the problem was, I had no words.
I could only point repeatedly to the spot where I tore off the calendar. To everyone’s surprise, there was a paper behind the calendar that had the words, BOOYAKA! BOOYAKA!

UP ‘till this day, I still can’t believe it!

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