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 upd...
Art & Culture
The best galleries, art and theatre in Accra
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 th...
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 Fo...
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 yout...
Investing in Ghanaian art
Is now the perfect time to invest in Ghanaian art?
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Accra's best art galleries
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 gal...
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, Kofi...
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 expres...
Joe’s Perspective Art Boutique
This luxury art boutique set up by Kukua Ampah has recently opened a branch at the new Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel. Many of the elegant and creative pieces ...
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Accra's cultural centres
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 bet...
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 there...
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 gal...
WEB Du Bois Memorial Centre
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an African-American civil rights activist who became a citizen of Ghana in the 1960s. He was known as the ‘Father of Pan-Af...