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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Not so famous Ghanaians: Kenneth Akufo Asare, the man who built all the canopy walkways in Ghana
While the Kakum Park and Legon Gardens are already famed for their canopy walkways, the Kintampo Falls has had a canopy walkway added to the experience after its reopening.
Though patrons love and enjoy their time on the canopy walkways, not many people had the idea of how those walkways were built or who built them. Well, it has emerged that the walkways and many others across Ghana are the handiwork by a man from Akyem Maase in the Eastern region called Kenneth Akufo Asare.
In to Year Of Return, Ghana 2019, return for the Chale Wote Festival, August 2019
If ever there was a super cool reason to return home to Ghana, it just has to be the Chale Wote Festival. It is happening in August 2019 and even if Ghana is not your home this is one trip so worth taking. Come visit Ghana at this time, the energy will blow you away.
WELCOME TO GHANA ! IMMIGRATION MATTERS. The essential yet boring stuff.
General notes and foreigner ID card Work permits For non-resident immigration matters (visas, entering Ghana, transit, stay extensions, overstays), See Ghana Immigration Services fees. GENERAL NOTES For work permit and all other applications detailed thereafter and made to the Immigration Service, note that: all applications are to be submitted with a cover letter addressed to the Director,…
AllAboutAccra supports the #EatGhana campaign with these cool images
AllAboutAccra.com is in full support of this great campaign by the Ghana Tourism Authority. The idea is that when you #VisitGhana that you should #EatGhana, #FeelGhana, #SeeGhana and for me, best of all #WearGhana. And I really do believe that this is the sort of campaign that everyone should get behind, individually and corporately.
