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   Osu Castle

   A castle built by the Danes from the 1660s on the Gulf of Guinea, later British, and the seat of Ghana's government until 2013. Enslaved people were held here before shipment; it is part of the World Heritage listing of the coastal forts.

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   National Museum of Ghana

   Ghana's national museum, opened in Accra days before independence in March 1957 and the oldest and largest of the six run by the museums and monuments board. Ashanti goldweights, kente cloth and archaeology from across the country.

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   Agbogbloshie

   A scrap and commercial district on the Korle lagoon that became known worldwide as a dumping ground for electronic waste, worked over by hand for copper. The main scrapyard was demolished in 2021 and the trade dispersed.

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   Black Star Square

   A parade ground laid out in 1961 for Kwame Nkrumah, holding some thirty thousand people, with the Black Star arch at one end. Independence Day is marked here each March, along with military and school parades.

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   Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum

   The mausoleum of Kwame Nkrumah, standing in a park on the old polo ground where he declared Ghana's independence in March 1957. The building is shaped as an upturned sword, and he and his wife Fathia are buried under it.

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   Ussher Fort

   A fort built by the Dutch in 1649 as Fort Crèvecœur, on a rocky point between two lagoons, and later a British colonial prison. Nkrumah was held in it before independence, which is why the cells are the part now shown.

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   Fort James

   Built in 1673 by England's Royal African Company as a trading post for gold and slaves, joining the Dutch fort of 1649 and the Danish one of 1652 along the same coast. Named for James, Duke of York, it served as a prison until 2008 — Kwame Nkrumah was held here in 1950-51 — and joined the UNESCO list in 1979.

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   Ghana National Mosque

   Ghana's national mosque, built with Turkish support and opened in 2021 in Ottoman style with four minarets and a great dome. It is among the largest in West Africa and holds a library and clinic in the complex.

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   Osu

   The coastal district three kilometres east of the centre, grown around the Danish castle of Christiansborg — built in 1661 and the seat of government until 2013. Oxford Street through the middle of it is the busiest commercial strip in Accra.

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    Fort Augustaborg

    A Danish fort built in the 1780s at Teshie, east of Accra, one of a chain of European trading posts along this coast. Little of it survives beyond the outer walls.

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   Nima

   A district north of central Accra settled by migrants from northern Ghana and the Sahel — a zongo, in the local term. Its market runs day and night and its food is the best argument for coming.

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   Black Star Gate

   A monumental arch at the centre of Black Star Square, carrying the black star of African liberation that Ghana put on its flag. It is the backdrop for every national ceremony.

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   Labadi Beach

   The busiest beach on the Ghanaian coast, maintained by the hotels along it. At weekends it fills with drumming groups, horse rides and food stalls, and it is where Accra actually goes rather than where visitors are sent.

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   Independence Arch

   An arch at Black Star Square raised for independence in 1957 and inscribed with the words freedom and justice. Ghana was the first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to become independent, and the square was built to say so.

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   Accra Ghana Temple

   A temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dedicated in 2004 and among the first the church built in sub-Saharan Africa, where its membership has grown faster than anywhere else.

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   Holy Trinity Cathedral

   The Anglican cathedral of Accra, founded in the late nineteenth century and the mother church of the province. It stands near the old colonial quarter of the city.

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   Holy Spirit Cathedral (Accra)

   The Catholic cathedral of Accra, built in the middle of the twentieth century for an archdiocese proposed in 1947, when the church here was still under a Vicariate. It stands in the Adabraka district in a plain modern Gothic.

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   Legon Botanical Gardens

   A botanical garden at Legon outside Accra, run by the University of Ghana next door. It holds tropical trees and medicinal plants, with forest trails and outdoor activity facilities among them.

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   Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, Osu

   A Presbyterian church at Osu, founded by the Basel Mission in the nineteenth century. The mission's work here produced the first written form of the Ga language and the schools that came with it.

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    Liberation Day Monument

    A memorial to the Gold Coast veterans of the Burma campaign who marched on Christiansborg Castle in February 1948 to demand the pay and benefits they had been promised, and were fired on by colonial police. The shooting set off riots that hastened Ghana's independence.

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