Welcome! You’ve Arrived in…
Accra
Ghana
Where independence, Pan-African vision and contemporary Ghanaian culture meet beneath the Black Star.
Gateway to the Black Star
THE CONNECTION
Why This Stop Matters
DIASPORIC THREAD
Ghana has become an important place of return and reconnection for people of African descent throughout the Diaspora.
CULTURAL SIGNATURE
From kente and highlife to markets, contemporary art and everyday street culture, Accra carries Ghanaian tradition forward without standing still.
HOW IT MOVES
Accra moves between highlife, hiplife and Afrobeats—generations of Ghanaian sound constantly talking to one another.
LEGACY & INFLUENCE
Ghana’s 1957 independence helped energize liberation movements across Africa, while Accra became an important center of Pan-African thought and possibility.
While You’re Here
BLACK STAR SQUARE
Stand beneath one of Ghana’s most recognizable symbols of independence, freedom and African liberation.
KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL PARK
Visit the memorial honoring Ghana’s first prime minister and president and the country’s independence story.
W.E.B. DU BOIS CENTRE
Explore the final home and resting place of one of Pan-Africanism’s most influential thinkers.
HAMAMAT SHEA BUTTER MUSEUM
Experience the traditional art of shea butter-making and the women preserving this ancestral craft.
Taste of Accra
WAAKYE
Rice and beans cooked together and served with a choose-your-own combination of deeply Ghanaian accompaniments.
KELEWELE
Ripe plantain seasoned with ginger, pepper and spices, then fried until caramelized.
RED RED
A rich black-eyed-pea stew traditionally served with fried plantain.
Signature Vibe
Highlife
Guitars. Horns. Rhythm. Ghanaian cool.
Highlife became one of Ghana’s defining musical forms and helped shape popular music far beyond the country. Accra gives us a chance to acknowledge the lineage underneath today’s contemporary Ghanaian sound.
Speak Like the City
Akwaaba
Welcome.
Accra has become a literal place of welcome (a gateway) and return for the African Diaspora.
Let the Music Play
SOUND OF THE CITY
“Black Stars”
by Kofi Kinaata (2026)
“Yes, ‘Black Stars’ speaks to Ghana’s national football team but I heard something bigger. Everywhere I looked while building Accra, the Black Star kept appearing: on the flag, above Independence Square and throughout Ghana’s story. For this journey, it became the symbol that brought the whole stop together.”
Follow the Black Star home
Continue the Journey
ONE STOP DOWN. THE DIASPORA AWAITS.
Your destination is only one stop on the journey. Keep exploring the places, rhythms, flavors and stories that connect us across the Diaspora.
Wheels Up! On to the next stop…
