Heritage
Tongo Tengzuk: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A granite range in the far northeast, sacred for centuries, twice stormed by colonial troops, and still drawing pilgrims to its ancestor shrine.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Ghana: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Asante Traditional Buildings: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Ten shrines near Kumasi are all that survives of Asante architecture. They are also working places of worship, which changes how you visit.
Travel planning
Accessible Travel in Ghana
Footways are used for trading and the castles have stairs. An honest account of traveling in Ghana with limited mobility, without pretending.
Heritage
Ghana and Diaspora Reconnection
UNESCO calls the coastal castles the starting point of the African diaspora. What a journey of return to Ghana involves, and what it asks.
Events and Festivals
Ghana Festivals and Celebrations
Homowo hoots at hunger and Aboakyer opens with a live hunt. What Ghana’s festivals are for, when they fall, and how to attend one well.
Food
Ghana Food Guide
Jollof, banku, waakye and kelewele. The staples worth knowing, how street food actually works, and what to ask for if you avoid chilli.
Travel planning
Ghana Travel Safety Guide
Ghana sits at Level 2 on the US advisory scale. What that means day to day, the one area both governments name, and the health basics.
Travel planning
Getting Around Ghana
Tro-tros, shared taxis, intercity coaches and hired drivers. How people actually move around Ghana, and what suits a first visit.
Travel planning
Ghana Packing List
What to put in the bag for a humid coast, a dusty harmattan and heritage sites where covered shoulders are the ordinary courtesy.
Travel planning
Ghana Currency and Money Guide
The cedi cannot be bought before you fly, so the first hour in Ghana is a cash decision. How notes, cards and mobile money really work.