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…
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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,…
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…
Invest in Ghana. The rewards can be superb in this opportunity nation.
Stopping in Accra is one of my favourite things to do, never more so now than before. Landing in a country where immigration says “Welcome Home” is always endearing. Seeing the booming economy can definitely make you want to call the place home. Economic growth of 14.5 percent in 2011 makes 2012’s 7.9 percent seem…
How some nerdy American’s see Ghana is quite an interesting insight into american’s and Ghana
I did not know if I should laugh or cry when I watched this. But to be fair, these guys have done a series of YouTube video’s and they get some serious traffic to their channel. So it is interesting to sit and watch this and to understand just how different people from different countries…
Ghana is losing its rainforest faster than any other country in the world
Ghana’s rainforest is being lost at an alarming rate, according to a new report about the state of forests worldwide. Global Forest Watch (GFW) used updated remote sensing and satellite data from the University of Maryland and estimates that there was a 60% increase in Ghana’s primary rainforest loss in 2018 compared to 2017, the…
