Neighbourhoods

Neighbourhood news from across Accra — local stories and community updates from the areas that make up Ghana’s capital.

Why Ghana’s military headquarters in Accra is called Burma Camp

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago

News

Accra has a wetland of international importance. Houses keep creeping into it

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago

They call it Sodom and Gomorrah. For tens of thousands of people, Old Fadama is home

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago

There is no Oxford Street on Accra’s map. Osu’s busiest road got the name anyway

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago

The red-and-white tower over Jamestown was built in 1932. The first lighthouse on the spot went up in 1871

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago

Business

Nkrumah built a city from a fishing village: Tema, its harbour and Ghana’s first motorway

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago

Horses on the sand, drummers at dusk and a strong current: what to know before you go to Labadi Beach

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago

The Danes paid 3,200 gold florins for it. Osu Castle and 350 years of power on the Accra coast

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago

Homowo means “hooting at hunger”. The Ga festival that turns a famine into a feast

Isaac Nana Yaw Annor 3 weeks ago