6 snippets of advice to help you enjoy your visit to Accra Ghana. It’s ghana be great.

1. Yaa nshonaa. (“Go to the beach,” in Ga, one of our local languages.) Accra is by the sea, but most of the shore is heartbreakingly choked with trash. The exceptions are Labadi Beach, Kokrobite Beach (a longer trip from Accra), and Titanic Beach in Tema, named for that one time a ship ran aground. (What…

Ghana has a lot of investment opportunities, here are just a few basics.

Ghana has a  lot of investment opportunities. This post is directed to both expatriates and Ghanaians willing to put blood and sweat into the right channel of investment for optimal returns. The average person seeks to secure a good job, hope to purchase that prestigious car and dwell in that house s/he has long been dreaming…

Famous Ghanaian’s: Inside the surreal parties of one of Africa’s most powerful kings

Crowning peoples’ heads were crocodile jaws and leopard skins, eagle feathers and shotgun cartridges. This wasn’t Ascot gone bonkers. This was Akwasidae and a celebration of the Ashanti king’s 20-year reign in Ghana. It was an exclusive party and I had an invitation.   The radio stations had been talking about it for weeks, the…

5 tiny tips to make your visit to Accra even more fun than you might expect.

1. Go marketing. Get your fruit and veggies from the aunties in the covered market next to the Total station at 37 (opposite MaxMart). Ask them to dash you a little something extra and they’ll usually throw in a couple more mangoes. Get the cloth for your seamstress at Makola. In our humble opinion, if you…

Ghana’s 100-year-old imam goes to church to promote ‘love, peace and forgiveness’

Ghana’s chief imam, who recently turned 100, has been praised for championing peace after he attended a Catholic Church service as part of his birthday celebrations. Pictures of Sheikh Osman Sharubutu, sitting attentively in the pews of Christ the King Catholic Church in the Ghanaian capital Accra, have gone viral on social media. The grand mufti,…

Creating earth-house pavilion for Ghana at Venice Art Biennale, it’s a #GhanaThing

You have got to love it when Ghanaian art, history and culture goes out to show off to the world. For me it is always fun to see a little bit of Ghana appear when you least expect it. Curving galleries plastered with earth characterise Ghana Freedom, the country’s national pavilion at the 58th Venice Art Biennale, designed…

7 tips on making your visit to Ghana and Accra easier and loads more fun.

1. Akwaaba! Welcome—that is—to Ghana. Here, people pride themselves on their hospitality. If you stand anywhere too long (and we mean anywhere: gas stations, street corners, in front of someone’s heavily-fortified, barbed wire-topped gate) someone will offer you a seat, or some shade, or tell you you’re invited to their meal. People—and especially school children in…

4 reasons why Ghana will continue to have terrible politicians, just like the rest of the world.

Ghanaians complain a lot about how bad our politicians are but rarely do you see Ghanaians questioning we keep producing people we are only going to hate in power. In Ghana, politicians are the common person’s least favourite people yet we cannot cut ourselves from these bunch and rarely do we ask ourselves why we…

Ghana Women of the Year Honours 2019 #GhanaGirls rule the world.

The fourth edition of the Ghana Women of the Year Honours came off last Friday, April 13, 2019 at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra. The awards, organised by Glitz Africa, saw nine outstanding women being celebrated for using their expertise, position and influence to inspire others to make a difference in driving other women…

Famous Ghanaians: Jesus Christ was a Ghanaian, an Akyem. So says Martin Kwasi Abrokwah, a Ghanaian Anthropologist.

Martin Kwasi Abrokwah, who is an Author of the book the “Revelation, Movement of Akan People from Canaan to Ghana”, has disclosed that Jesus Christ was full blooded Ghanaian. Now I have to admit I am not 100% sold on the idea or such a statement, however, I do have to add that I am…