Let us take you on a journey through vibrant cities, serene beaches, and timeless traditions. Your adventure in Ghana starts here!
Honouring pioneers and role models whose work and positive impact on their societies deserve wider recognition.
Offering 50 artists a year-long programme to accelerate their socially engaged art practices and facilitate meaningful connections between creatives working on similar themes.
Encouraging the careers, creativity and experimentation of 100 emerging artists whose work engages with socio-political issues within their local context.
Offering 50 artists a year-long programme to accelerate their socially engaged art practices and facilitate meaningful connections between creatives working on similar themes.
Honouring pioneers and role models whose work and positive impact on their societies deserve wider recognition.
Reimagining Sustainable Futures
Reimagining Sustainable Futures
Reimagining Sustainable Futures
Reimagining Sustainable Futures
Central Region
Built by the Portuguese in 1482, this is the oldest European building in sub-Saharan Africa. Its dungeons and the Door of No Return make it one of the most moving places on the Gold Coast.
Guided dungeon tour · Door of No Return · Fishing harbour views
Central Region
A whitewashed fortress above the Atlantic that once served as the seat of British colonial rule. Its museum and dungeons tell the story of the transatlantic slave trade.
Castle museum · Door of No Return · Atlantic ramparts
Western Region
Built by the Portuguese in 1515 and later held by the Dutch, this fort sits on a rocky headland above the town of Axim and its beaches.
Headland views · Dutch-era ramparts · Nearby beaches
Volta Region
A Danish fort from the 1780s on the sandy Keta coast, where the Atlantic meets the lagoon. Its weathered walls look out over both.
Sea and lagoon views · Danish-era walls · Keta lagoon
Greater Accra Region
The mausoleum and museum honouring Ghana's first president, built on the old Polo Grounds where independence was declared in 1957.
Mausoleum · Museum and personal artefacts · Bronze statue
Ashanti Region
The seat of the Asantehene, the Asante king. The museum in the former 1925 palace keeps royal regalia, photographs and the story of the Asante court.
Royal regalia · Guided museum tour · Asante court history
Central Region
Captives were bathed in this river before the march to the coast. In 1998 the remains of two African Americans were reburied here in a place of remembrance.
Ancestral river · Reburial memorial · Guided visit
Western Region
A village built on stilts above the Amansuri wetland and reached only by canoe. Oral tradition says its founders arrived centuries ago from the north.
Canoe journey · Stilt houses · Wetland wildlife
Savannah Region
A memorial site in a town that was a major 19th-century trading hub, remembered for its slave market and its role in the kola and caravan trade.
Market site · Local history guides · Salaga market day
Savannah Region
A Sudano-Sahelian mosque of mud and timber, traditionally dated to 1421 and often called the oldest in Ghana. It stands beside Mole National Park.
Sudanese-style architecture · Village walk · Mole National Park nearby
Upper East Region
Ancestral shrines among the granite boulders of the Tong Hills, still central to the spiritual life of the Tallensi people.
Hilltop shrines · Tallensi traditions · Local guide advised
Music
Dance
