Qualla: Accra https://qualla.com/accra en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/b/z/z/accra-wk/golden-jubilee-house-j.jpg Qualla: Accra https://qualla.com/accra Accra: Introduction https://qualla.com/accra/ Photo credit Amoat7, CC BY-SA 4.0. Accra sits on the Gulf of Guinea coast where the Ga people settled before Europeans arrived seeking gold and enslaved people. The city became capital of the British Gold Coast in 1877 and capital of independent Ghana in 1957 - the first sub-Saharan African colony to gain independence, its moment inspiring a continent. Kwame Nkrumah, who led that independence, built monuments that still define Accra's civic spaces; his successors have added the development that has made Ghana one of Africa's more stable democracies. The Greater Accra Region holds over 5 million people, a population that has grown as rural Ghana has emptied and as diaspora Ghanaians have returned. Accra is not Lagos - it is smaller, calmer, more manageable - but it shares the West African coastal character: humid, commercial, hustling, alive.

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/b/z/z/accra-wk/ebzz-accra-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Accra: Independence Square https://qualla.com/accra/ Photo credit Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0. Independence Square, also called Black Star Square, is the ceremonial heart of Ghana - the parade grounds where Nkrumah declared independence on March 6, 1957, the arch and monument that commemorate that moment, the space where national celebrations occur. The Black Star that top...

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/b/z/z/accra-wk/ebzz-accra-independence-square.mp3 0:06 2 full Accra: The Slave Castles https://qualla.com/accra/ Photo credit Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0. The slave castles of Ghana's coast - Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle the most famous - stand as memorials to centuries of human trafficking. Built by Portuguese, Dutch, and British traders, the castles held captured Africans in dungeons before loading them onto ships for the ...

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/b/z/z/accra-wk/ebzz-accra-the-slave-castles.mp3 0:06 3 full Accra: Jamestown and Ussher Town https://qualla.com/accra/ Photo credit Manny9455, CC BY-SA 3.0. The old neighborhoods of Jamestown and Ussher Town predate colonial Accra, their narrow streets and fishing communities offering glimpses of the city before independence transformed it. The lighthouses that mark the neighborhoods date to the 1930s, their colonial architecture now...

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/b/z/z/accra-wk/ebzz-accra-jamestown-and-ussher-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Accra: The Diaspora Returns https://qualla.com/accra/ Photo credit De Great Immune, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ghana has actively courted the African diaspora, offering citizenship rights to descendants of enslaved people and promoting return migration. The Year of Return in 2019 commemorated 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, bringing thousands of diaspora v...

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]]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/b/z/z/accra-wk/ebzz-accra-the-diaspora-returns.mp3 0:06 5 full Accra: The Markets https://qualla.com/accra/ Photo credit Dr. Rudolf Fisch, Public domain. Makola Market is Accra's commercial heart - a sprawling maze of stalls selling cloth, electronics, food, and everything else that Ghanaians buy and sell. The market women who control trade have political power that their informal status belies; no government can ignore them, and ...

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