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The Time Out Accra hot list
Read on for our guide to the week's coolest events and most interesting venues. If you manage to tick off all ten, head back to our home page for daily...
Art & Culture
The best galleries, art and theatre in Accra
Art
Q & A with the fascinating Yaw Owusu
Time Out: Your use of pesewa coins has become your artistic calling card of sorts. Were there any other materials that came as a close second?
Yaw Owusu: At...
Art
Design for life
Past an A-Board that reads ‘Accra Redefined’ and up the wooden stairs of an old, somewhat ramshackle 1915 building in Usshertown, two buildings down from the...
Art
Accrartist: Poetra Asantewa
Ama Asantewa Diaka is the CEO of fashion brand, Alikoto Clothing, and greeting card company, Yobbings. She also heads up Love Rock, an NGO aiming to assist...
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Accra's best art galleries
Museums
Nubuke Foundation
The Nubuke Foundation has been in this, its first permanent location, since 2009. In this pleasant building in East Legon is one of the most interesting art...
Art
Artists Alliance Gallery
This three-storey gallery is home to a large array of Ghanaian artists and sculptors such as Augustine Gokah, Betty Acquah, Nii T Mills, Ebenezer Borlabie,...
Art
Loom
Loom’s Frances Ademola has a popular gallery that exhibits paintings and sculptures by a good selection of Ghana’s foremost artists, with a smattering of...
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Music
From highlife to hiplife
Accra is one of Africa's leading musical cities - and the spiritual home of a style that's been taking over the world in recent years: African highlife
Art
The art of death
An inside look at Accra's iconic fantasy coffin art - as practised by the Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop
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Accra's cultural centres
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Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut is the German cultural centre and celebrates 50 years of being in Ghana. It has an impressive array of events and art exhibitions. Links...
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Alliance Française d’Accra
The Accra-based arm of the French cultural centre offers a large range of artistic activities every week. It particularly excels in live music events, but...
Museums
Nubuke Foundation
The Nubuke Foundation has been in this, its first permanent location, since 2009. In this pleasant building in East Legon is one of the most interesting art...