Ghana has over the years made tremendous progress towards achieving accelerated development with the use of ICT and one of such ICT landmarks is the introduction and usage of drones in Ghana.  

Drones have generally had a sinister image, mainly due to its use by the military to track enemy combatants. Drones currently have key roles in aerial photographs and videos, real estate photography, elections monitoring, remote sensing, automated package delivery, and search and rescue in humanitarian response. 

Improvements in technology and lowering cost has led to the remodeling of drones to have development applications to contribute in growth in sectors such as health, agriculture, security, road safety and traffic management; natural resource management, aerial photography, 3-D mapping; search and rescue, among others.

If you’d like to contact the GCAA directly before you travel with any questions you might have, here is their contact information: info@gcaagh.com / +233 21 776 177

General Rules for Flying a Drone in Ghana

1. All drones must be registered with the GCAA. Registration fees may cost up to $4,000, and failure to register a drone can result in a 30 year prison term.
2. Do not fly within 10 kilometers (6 miles) of airports or helipads.
3. Do not fly drones higher that 400 feet vertically.
4. Visual line of sight must be maintained with drones.
5. Drone insurance is required.
6. Drones may only be operated at night with a special permit from the GCAA.
7. Drones may not fly in restricted areas.
8. Goods may not be dropped or transported via drone without prior special authorization.
9. Drone operator must be at least 18 years of age.
10. Flight into icy conditions is prohibited.
11. Drones may not be operated in congested areas of cities, towns, or settlements. Additionally drones may not be flown over crowds.
12. Drones may not fly within a 30 meter (98 feet) radius of buildings or vehicles without prior express permission.

 1. Productivity in Ghana is at a higher rate than its neighboring nations.

Ghana uses 6% of its GDP to pay for education, one of the highest percentages in the world. It is a participant in world trade. Gold, cocoa and oil are three of Ghana’s primary exports. This keeps profits high enough to continue to educate and train younger citizens to farm and harvest. For example, the GDP (gross domestic product) of the neighboring country Togo is less than Ghana. Meanwhile, 30% of the population in Togo lives below the poverty line (2,366,700 people). Ghana’s percentage of those below the poverty line is 23.4% (6,966,180 people).

2. In 2017, students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology developed a solar-powered vehicle for transport called “aCar” to further explore the transportation needs of the country. 

Mostly, Ghanaian farmers need transportation to and from the town markets (especially rural farmers) and also carry the goods that they need to sell. The aCar became a convenient way to transport goods and trade with other farmers at markets in town. The car is solar-powered, does not require fossil fuel and also save them money.

3. Chailes Ofori Antipem's Textbook Invention

He created a science set, a small black box the size and price (at $15) of a textbook packed with electrical kit.Being able to put the sets on the desks of the students and see that glow in their eyes when they build that first electrical circuit, he says. "That is what keeps us going."Charles set up his company Dext Technology 18 months ago. He now has nine members of staff, and has so far sold more than 5,000 sets to government and private schools across Ghana.

The idea started with his roommate, Michael Asante Afrifa, in their dorm room at university. They want every child in Ghana to have access to one in the next two years.Getting the knowledge from the book is one thing but being able to experience it with experimentation is what is really important".

But sub-Saharan Africa is massively lagging behind in terms of its investment in STEM education and training. As a region on its own, the UN states it will need 2.5 million engineers alone just to meet its sustainable development goal (SDG) of improving access to clean water and sanitation.

Dr Thomas Tagoe, a member of the Ghana Science Association, says instilling in children a love of science is particularly important as the country does not have enough engineers and IT specialists.

4. Accra has become the home and the hub for technological advancement and the future of the nation’s development. 

Accra is a home to many tech firms and startup ideas. Accra has become the host for pharmaceutical companies like “mPedigree” and “Rancard” that provide telecommunication services with other companies in the region. 

Setting up these telecommunication companies in the heart of Ghana’s metropolitan city has helped thousands of students, growing up in Ghana is difficult not to talk about finding a path and way of learning. 

The median age in Ghana is 21 years old (5,230,050 people within the age range of 15-24). The future of Ghana is relying on young citizens to develop and further produce technological solutions to the prominent issues that currently lack such.

5. Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra is providing complete IT training, funding for software startups and even mentorship for all students.

Having more young people trained in IT is helpful for the progression of technology and productivity within the nation. These schools and programs give young Ghanaians inspiration, hope and prosperity for their future and that of the nation. Students originating from rural cities and towns are learning skills that they can use internationally or locally. They are learning environmental and technological problem-solving. Tech hubs like Impact Hub Accra, iSpace and MEST are working the minds of those who want to learn to develop their communities.

 Despite being physically challenged with no arms to facilitate her daily routine, as teacher has become an inspiration to many people after a photo of her holding a chalk with her lips to write on a board went viral.

Louisa Enyonam Ansah, a teacher at Adoagyiri R/C school in Kasoa, has reinforced the narrative that disability is not inability.

A recent photo of the teacher with a felt-tip pen in her mouth writing on a board has surfaced on social media.

Despite having no arms to hold a pen writing while teaching, madam Enyonam is seen holding the tip of a marker with her mouth to write.

With her effort, regardless of the herculean challenge has many lauding the teacher for surmounting the difficulty to transfer knowledge to her pupils.

This teacher conveys a powerful message which goes beyond the classroom. She teaches a subject about leadership and  moving out of their comfort zones and beat down the difficulties in life to become winners.

She said what one does can only become visible when they dare to be extraordinarily different. Enyonam defines true resilience in the face of an obvious challenge.

This message is a message of encouragement and to the student. They can become who they want to be in future. And the people who are willing to shape their minds and paradigms regardless of the daunting challenges present.

Hopefully, more people would be encouraged to look beyond what ever incapacitates them to impact society positively.

 Mole National Park covers a large savannah filled with African elephants, buffalos, baboons, warthogs, and kob antelopes.

The park is a home to almost 90 mammal species and at least 300 bird species. 734 species of flower plants, 56 butterfly species, and enough bird species to attract avid birders, 300 species, including the white-backed vulture and Senegal parrot. Between December and April is the best time for elephant sightings, though you’re guaranteed to see plenty of mammals’ year round.

The park allows walking and driving in the safaris and you can rent a park vehicle if you don’t have your own.

Mole National Park offers what must surely be the cheapest safaris in Africa and is the Ghana's largest wildlife refuge where you see the animals and even touch them.

The park was established in 1964, though the land was first set aside as a game reserve in 1958, a year after Ghana’s independence from Britain. The park spans about 3,000 square miles, fed by the seasonal Lovi and Mole rivers. 

There are motel and swimming pool that can be seeing from a cliffside out across the savanna woodland, you can watch herds of elephants meandering by the water holes below.

However, because of the few dozen villages located near the park boundaries, subsistence hunting continues to pose a problem for preserving the wildlife. What’s more, the elephants’ former migration route into southern Burkina Faso has been obstructed by human settlement, and seemingly less frequented as a result.

PANAFEST is an event dedicated to the African dance, music and other performing arts. Also known as the 'Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival', Panfest is a cultural event that aims and endeavors towards the enhancement of the ideals of Pan-Africanism and the development of the African continent. It is a biennial festival and is observed every two years to celebrate the people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans on continent and in the global arena.

PANAFEST is founded on the premise that the arts, particularly theatre,  are powerful tools of communication and healing and that people need to create new expressions and commemorations and platforms for dialogue to provide the inspiration for mobilizing energies for moving on to greater heights.

The PAN African historical theatre project now known as  “Panafest” Festival was inspired by and takes its source from a paper written in the mid-1980s as a cultural vehicle for bringing Africans on the continent and in the diaspora together around the issues raised by slavery which remain prevalent.

The PANAFEST 1980 entitled “Proposal for a Historical Drama Festival in Cape Coast” by Dr. Mrs. Efua Sutherland, who was a distinguished Ghanaian Dramatist and Pan-Africanist. In 1991 the idea gained root and took shape in an expanded form as the Pan-African Historical Theater Festival (PANAFEST).

In October of that year,  “Panafest” was officially launched and in December of the same year, the national phase of the festival was held in Cape Coast, Ghana after a series of activities which included a national playwriting competition, organized seminars and workshops on Pan-Africanism across the country.

These constitute an impediment to the progress of Africans and must be laid to rest. Ghana’s coast line is dotted with large, now silent memorials to over 500 years of this most turbulent era in Africa’s history the festival consciously makes them a site for confronting the effects of enslavement, purging the pain of diaspora, acknowledging the residual effects of the trade on the continent and re-uniting to forge a positive future in the contemporary global environment.

The festival through the Grand Durbar in Cape Coast and the Royal Procession in Assin Manso will feature unique atonement rituals. The now deeply meaningful and popular Reverential Night will take place at Cape Coast Castle Dungeon culminating in the reading of the Emancipation Declaration.

 Jamestown is located directly at the east of Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest cities in Accra, Ghana and its cities emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Dutch Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

These districts were developed at the end of the 19th century, and following the rapid growth of the city during the 20th century, they became areas of a dense mixture of commercial and residential use.

today, both Jamestown and Usshertown remain fishing communities inhabited primarily by the Ga. Although in a state of decay, the districts are significant in the history of Accra which replaced Cape Coast as the capital of Gold Coast (British colony) in 1876. 

The original lighthouse at built at James Fort in 1871, was replaced in the 1930s by the current tower, which is 28 m 92 feet tall. The lighthouse, which is 34 metres 112 feet above sea level, has a visibility of 16 nautical miles 30 km, it overlooks the harbour, James fort, the Bukom district and the Ussher

Jamestown is a tough but moving neighborhood of Accra. There are tons of history to discover as both the British and the Portuguese left behind as a cultural and architectural legacy.

The Jamestown community is close-knit and the atmosphere is lively. Their outmost best street entertainments is boxing and motorcycling. 

Artists Alliance gallery in Accra Ghana has become one of the most important art venues in Ghana. Three expansive art floors were exhibited in the cool marble gallery, exhibited by famous artists such as Owusu Ankomah and George Hughes, whose paintings reminiscent of Jean Michel Basquiat and Willem De Kooning, while other painters It is a new and upcoming artist such as Ebenezer Borlabie. 

Market, country and urban scenes are full of political satire - of course, Glover himself has caged characters and intermittent crowd scenes.

On display are crabs, you will see the artistic designs for running shoes and eagle-shaped full-size coffins. Everything is for sale.

The Artists Alliance Gallery has been dedicated to bringing attention to traditional and contemporary African art worldwide. The mission of the gallery is to provide art connoisseurs with rich and authentic contemporary art and traditional African art.

Ghana has over the years made tremendous progress towards achieving accelerated development with the use of ICT and one of such ICT landmarks is the introduction and usage of drones in Ghana.  

Drones have generally had a sinister image, mainly due to its use by the military to track enemy combatants. Drones currently have key roles in aerial photographs and videos, real estate photography, elections monitoring, remote sensing, automated package delivery, and search and rescue in humanitarian response. 

Improvements in technology and lowering cost has led to the remodeling of drones to have development applications to contribute in growth in sectors such as health, agriculture, security, road safety and traffic management; natural resource management, aerial photography, 3-D mapping; search and rescue, among others.

If you’d like to contact the GCAA directly before you travel with any questions you might have, here is their contact information: info@gcaagh.com / +233 21 776 177

General Rules for Flying a Drone in Ghana

1. All drones must be registered with the GCAA. Registration fees may cost up to $4,000, and failure to register a drone can result in a 30 year prison term.
2. Do not fly within 10 kilometers (6 miles) of airports or helipads.
3. Do not fly drones higher that 400 feet vertically.
4. Visual line of sight must be maintained with drones.
5. Drone insurance is required.
6. Drones may only be operated at night with a special permit from the GCAA.
7. Drones may not fly in restricted areas.
8. Goods may not be dropped or transported via drone without prior special authorization.
9. Drone operator must be at least 18 years of age.
10. Flight into icy conditions is prohibited.
11. Drones may not be operated in congested areas of cities, towns, or settlements. Additionally drones may not be flown over crowds.
12. Drones may not fly within a 30 meter (98 feet) radius of buildings or vehicles without prior express permission.

 1. Productivity in Ghana is at a higher rate than its neighboring nations.

Ghana uses 6% of its GDP to pay for education, one of the highest percentages in the world. It is a participant in world trade. Gold, cocoa and oil are three of Ghana’s primary exports. This keeps profits high enough to continue to educate and train younger citizens to farm and harvest. For example, the GDP (gross domestic product) of the neighboring country Togo is less than Ghana. Meanwhile, 30% of the population in Togo lives below the poverty line (2,366,700 people). Ghana’s percentage of those below the poverty line is 23.4% (6,966,180 people).

2. In 2017, students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology developed a solar-powered vehicle for transport called “aCar” to further explore the transportation needs of the country. 

Mostly, Ghanaian farmers need transportation to and from the town markets (especially rural farmers) and also carry the goods that they need to sell. The aCar became a convenient way to transport goods and trade with other farmers at markets in town. The car is solar-powered, does not require fossil fuel and also save them money.

3. Chailes Ofori Antipem's Textbook Invention

He created a science set, a small black box the size and price (at $15) of a textbook packed with electrical kit.Being able to put the sets on the desks of the students and see that glow in their eyes when they build that first electrical circuit, he says. "That is what keeps us going."Charles set up his company Dext Technology 18 months ago. He now has nine members of staff, and has so far sold more than 5,000 sets to government and private schools across Ghana.

The idea started with his roommate, Michael Asante Afrifa, in their dorm room at university. They want every child in Ghana to have access to one in the next two years.Getting the knowledge from the book is one thing but being able to experience it with experimentation is what is really important".

But sub-Saharan Africa is massively lagging behind in terms of its investment in STEM education and training. As a region on its own, the UN states it will need 2.5 million engineers alone just to meet its sustainable development goal (SDG) of improving access to clean water and sanitation.

Dr Thomas Tagoe, a member of the Ghana Science Association, says instilling in children a love of science is particularly important as the country does not have enough engineers and IT specialists.

4. Accra has become the home and the hub for technological advancement and the future of the nation’s development. 

Accra is a home to many tech firms and startup ideas. Accra has become the host for pharmaceutical companies like “mPedigree” and “Rancard” that provide telecommunication services with other companies in the region. 

Setting up these telecommunication companies in the heart of Ghana’s metropolitan city has helped thousands of students, growing up in Ghana is difficult not to talk about finding a path and way of learning. 

The median age in Ghana is 21 years old (5,230,050 people within the age range of 15-24). The future of Ghana is relying on young citizens to develop and further produce technological solutions to the prominent issues that currently lack such.

5. Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra is providing complete IT training, funding for software startups and even mentorship for all students.

Having more young people trained in IT is helpful for the progression of technology and productivity within the nation. These schools and programs give young Ghanaians inspiration, hope and prosperity for their future and that of the nation. Students originating from rural cities and towns are learning skills that they can use internationally or locally. They are learning environmental and technological problem-solving. Tech hubs like Impact Hub Accra, iSpace and MEST are working the minds of those who want to learn to develop their communities.

 Despite being physically challenged with no arms to facilitate her daily routine, as teacher has become an inspiration to many people after a photo of her holding a chalk with her lips to write on a board went viral.

Louisa Enyonam Ansah, a teacher at Adoagyiri R/C school in Kasoa, has reinforced the narrative that disability is not inability.

A recent photo of the teacher with a felt-tip pen in her mouth writing on a board has surfaced on social media.

Despite having no arms to hold a pen writing while teaching, madam Enyonam is seen holding the tip of a marker with her mouth to write.

With her effort, regardless of the herculean challenge has many lauding the teacher for surmounting the difficulty to transfer knowledge to her pupils.

This teacher conveys a powerful message which goes beyond the classroom. She teaches a subject about leadership and  moving out of their comfort zones and beat down the difficulties in life to become winners.

She said what one does can only become visible when they dare to be extraordinarily different. Enyonam defines true resilience in the face of an obvious challenge.

This message is a message of encouragement and to the student. They can become who they want to be in future. And the people who are willing to shape their minds and paradigms regardless of the daunting challenges present.

Hopefully, more people would be encouraged to look beyond what ever incapacitates them to impact society positively.

 Mole National Park covers a large savannah filled with African elephants, buffalos, baboons, warthogs, and kob antelopes.

The park is a home to almost 90 mammal species and at least 300 bird species. 734 species of flower plants, 56 butterfly species, and enough bird species to attract avid birders, 300 species, including the white-backed vulture and Senegal parrot. Between December and April is the best time for elephant sightings, though you’re guaranteed to see plenty of mammals’ year round.

The park allows walking and driving in the safaris and you can rent a park vehicle if you don’t have your own.

Mole National Park offers what must surely be the cheapest safaris in Africa and is the Ghana's largest wildlife refuge where you see the animals and even touch them.

The park was established in 1964, though the land was first set aside as a game reserve in 1958, a year after Ghana’s independence from Britain. The park spans about 3,000 square miles, fed by the seasonal Lovi and Mole rivers. 

There are motel and swimming pool that can be seeing from a cliffside out across the savanna woodland, you can watch herds of elephants meandering by the water holes below.

However, because of the few dozen villages located near the park boundaries, subsistence hunting continues to pose a problem for preserving the wildlife. What’s more, the elephants’ former migration route into southern Burkina Faso has been obstructed by human settlement, and seemingly less frequented as a result.

PANAFEST is an event dedicated to the African dance, music and other performing arts. Also known as the 'Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival', Panfest is a cultural event that aims and endeavors towards the enhancement of the ideals of Pan-Africanism and the development of the African continent. It is a biennial festival and is observed every two years to celebrate the people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans on continent and in the global arena.

PANAFEST is founded on the premise that the arts, particularly theatre,  are powerful tools of communication and healing and that people need to create new expressions and commemorations and platforms for dialogue to provide the inspiration for mobilizing energies for moving on to greater heights.

The PAN African historical theatre project now known as  “Panafest” Festival was inspired by and takes its source from a paper written in the mid-1980s as a cultural vehicle for bringing Africans on the continent and in the diaspora together around the issues raised by slavery which remain prevalent.

The PANAFEST 1980 entitled “Proposal for a Historical Drama Festival in Cape Coast” by Dr. Mrs. Efua Sutherland, who was a distinguished Ghanaian Dramatist and Pan-Africanist. In 1991 the idea gained root and took shape in an expanded form as the Pan-African Historical Theater Festival (PANAFEST).

In October of that year,  “Panafest” was officially launched and in December of the same year, the national phase of the festival was held in Cape Coast, Ghana after a series of activities which included a national playwriting competition, organized seminars and workshops on Pan-Africanism across the country.

These constitute an impediment to the progress of Africans and must be laid to rest. Ghana’s coast line is dotted with large, now silent memorials to over 500 years of this most turbulent era in Africa’s history the festival consciously makes them a site for confronting the effects of enslavement, purging the pain of diaspora, acknowledging the residual effects of the trade on the continent and re-uniting to forge a positive future in the contemporary global environment.

The festival through the Grand Durbar in Cape Coast and the Royal Procession in Assin Manso will feature unique atonement rituals. The now deeply meaningful and popular Reverential Night will take place at Cape Coast Castle Dungeon culminating in the reading of the Emancipation Declaration.

 Jamestown is located directly at the east of Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest cities in Accra, Ghana and its cities emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Dutch Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

These districts were developed at the end of the 19th century, and following the rapid growth of the city during the 20th century, they became areas of a dense mixture of commercial and residential use.

today, both Jamestown and Usshertown remain fishing communities inhabited primarily by the Ga. Although in a state of decay, the districts are significant in the history of Accra which replaced Cape Coast as the capital of Gold Coast (British colony) in 1876. 

The original lighthouse at built at James Fort in 1871, was replaced in the 1930s by the current tower, which is 28 m 92 feet tall. The lighthouse, which is 34 metres 112 feet above sea level, has a visibility of 16 nautical miles 30 km, it overlooks the harbour, James fort, the Bukom district and the Ussher

Jamestown is a tough but moving neighborhood of Accra. There are tons of history to discover as both the British and the Portuguese left behind as a cultural and architectural legacy.

The Jamestown community is close-knit and the atmosphere is lively. Their outmost best street entertainments is boxing and motorcycling. 

Artists Alliance gallery in Accra Ghana has become one of the most important art venues in Ghana. Three expansive art floors were exhibited in the cool marble gallery, exhibited by famous artists such as Owusu Ankomah and George Hughes, whose paintings reminiscent of Jean Michel Basquiat and Willem De Kooning, while other painters It is a new and upcoming artist such as Ebenezer Borlabie. 

Market, country and urban scenes are full of political satire - of course, Glover himself has caged characters and intermittent crowd scenes.

On display are crabs, you will see the artistic designs for running shoes and eagle-shaped full-size coffins. Everything is for sale.

The Artists Alliance Gallery has been dedicated to bringing attention to traditional and contemporary African art worldwide. The mission of the gallery is to provide art connoisseurs with rich and authentic contemporary art and traditional African art.

Ghana has over the years made tremendous progress towards achieving accelerated development with the use of ICT and one of such ICT landmarks is the introduction and usage of drones in Ghana.  

Drones have generally had a sinister image, mainly due to its use by the military to track enemy combatants. Drones currently have key roles in aerial photographs and videos, real estate photography, elections monitoring, remote sensing, automated package delivery, and search and rescue in humanitarian response. 

Improvements in technology and lowering cost has led to the remodeling of drones to have development applications to contribute in growth in sectors such as health, agriculture, security, road safety and traffic management; natural resource management, aerial photography, 3-D mapping; search and rescue, among others.

If you’d like to contact the GCAA directly before you travel with any questions you might have, here is their contact information: info@gcaagh.com / +233 21 776 177

General Rules for Flying a Drone in Ghana

1. All drones must be registered with the GCAA. Registration fees may cost up to $4,000, and failure to register a drone can result in a 30 year prison term.
2. Do not fly within 10 kilometers (6 miles) of airports or helipads.
3. Do not fly drones higher that 400 feet vertically.
4. Visual line of sight must be maintained with drones.
5. Drone insurance is required.
6. Drones may only be operated at night with a special permit from the GCAA.
7. Drones may not fly in restricted areas.
8. Goods may not be dropped or transported via drone without prior special authorization.
9. Drone operator must be at least 18 years of age.
10. Flight into icy conditions is prohibited.
11. Drones may not be operated in congested areas of cities, towns, or settlements. Additionally drones may not be flown over crowds.
12. Drones may not fly within a 30 meter (98 feet) radius of buildings or vehicles without prior express permission.

 1. Productivity in Ghana is at a higher rate than its neighboring nations.

Ghana uses 6% of its GDP to pay for education, one of the highest percentages in the world. It is a participant in world trade. Gold, cocoa and oil are three of Ghana’s primary exports. This keeps profits high enough to continue to educate and train younger citizens to farm and harvest. For example, the GDP (gross domestic product) of the neighboring country Togo is less than Ghana. Meanwhile, 30% of the population in Togo lives below the poverty line (2,366,700 people). Ghana’s percentage of those below the poverty line is 23.4% (6,966,180 people).

2. In 2017, students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology developed a solar-powered vehicle for transport called “aCar” to further explore the transportation needs of the country. 

Mostly, Ghanaian farmers need transportation to and from the town markets (especially rural farmers) and also carry the goods that they need to sell. The aCar became a convenient way to transport goods and trade with other farmers at markets in town. The car is solar-powered, does not require fossil fuel and also save them money.

3. Chailes Ofori Antipem's Textbook Invention

He created a science set, a small black box the size and price (at $15) of a textbook packed with electrical kit.Being able to put the sets on the desks of the students and see that glow in their eyes when they build that first electrical circuit, he says. "That is what keeps us going."Charles set up his company Dext Technology 18 months ago. He now has nine members of staff, and has so far sold more than 5,000 sets to government and private schools across Ghana.

The idea started with his roommate, Michael Asante Afrifa, in their dorm room at university. They want every child in Ghana to have access to one in the next two years.Getting the knowledge from the book is one thing but being able to experience it with experimentation is what is really important".

But sub-Saharan Africa is massively lagging behind in terms of its investment in STEM education and training. As a region on its own, the UN states it will need 2.5 million engineers alone just to meet its sustainable development goal (SDG) of improving access to clean water and sanitation.

Dr Thomas Tagoe, a member of the Ghana Science Association, says instilling in children a love of science is particularly important as the country does not have enough engineers and IT specialists.

4. Accra has become the home and the hub for technological advancement and the future of the nation’s development. 

Accra is a home to many tech firms and startup ideas. Accra has become the host for pharmaceutical companies like “mPedigree” and “Rancard” that provide telecommunication services with other companies in the region. 

Setting up these telecommunication companies in the heart of Ghana’s metropolitan city has helped thousands of students, growing up in Ghana is difficult not to talk about finding a path and way of learning. 

The median age in Ghana is 21 years old (5,230,050 people within the age range of 15-24). The future of Ghana is relying on young citizens to develop and further produce technological solutions to the prominent issues that currently lack such.

5. Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra is providing complete IT training, funding for software startups and even mentorship for all students.

Having more young people trained in IT is helpful for the progression of technology and productivity within the nation. These schools and programs give young Ghanaians inspiration, hope and prosperity for their future and that of the nation. Students originating from rural cities and towns are learning skills that they can use internationally or locally. They are learning environmental and technological problem-solving. Tech hubs like Impact Hub Accra, iSpace and MEST are working the minds of those who want to learn to develop their communities.

 Despite being physically challenged with no arms to facilitate her daily routine, as teacher has become an inspiration to many people after a photo of her holding a chalk with her lips to write on a board went viral.

Louisa Enyonam Ansah, a teacher at Adoagyiri R/C school in Kasoa, has reinforced the narrative that disability is not inability.

A recent photo of the teacher with a felt-tip pen in her mouth writing on a board has surfaced on social media.

Despite having no arms to hold a pen writing while teaching, madam Enyonam is seen holding the tip of a marker with her mouth to write.

With her effort, regardless of the herculean challenge has many lauding the teacher for surmounting the difficulty to transfer knowledge to her pupils.

This teacher conveys a powerful message which goes beyond the classroom. She teaches a subject about leadership and  moving out of their comfort zones and beat down the difficulties in life to become winners.

She said what one does can only become visible when they dare to be extraordinarily different. Enyonam defines true resilience in the face of an obvious challenge.

This message is a message of encouragement and to the student. They can become who they want to be in future. And the people who are willing to shape their minds and paradigms regardless of the daunting challenges present.

Hopefully, more people would be encouraged to look beyond what ever incapacitates them to impact society positively.

 Mole National Park covers a large savannah filled with African elephants, buffalos, baboons, warthogs, and kob antelopes.

The park is a home to almost 90 mammal species and at least 300 bird species. 734 species of flower plants, 56 butterfly species, and enough bird species to attract avid birders, 300 species, including the white-backed vulture and Senegal parrot. Between December and April is the best time for elephant sightings, though you’re guaranteed to see plenty of mammals’ year round.

The park allows walking and driving in the safaris and you can rent a park vehicle if you don’t have your own.

Mole National Park offers what must surely be the cheapest safaris in Africa and is the Ghana's largest wildlife refuge where you see the animals and even touch them.

The park was established in 1964, though the land was first set aside as a game reserve in 1958, a year after Ghana’s independence from Britain. The park spans about 3,000 square miles, fed by the seasonal Lovi and Mole rivers. 

There are motel and swimming pool that can be seeing from a cliffside out across the savanna woodland, you can watch herds of elephants meandering by the water holes below.

However, because of the few dozen villages located near the park boundaries, subsistence hunting continues to pose a problem for preserving the wildlife. What’s more, the elephants’ former migration route into southern Burkina Faso has been obstructed by human settlement, and seemingly less frequented as a result.

PANAFEST is an event dedicated to the African dance, music and other performing arts. Also known as the 'Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival', Panfest is a cultural event that aims and endeavors towards the enhancement of the ideals of Pan-Africanism and the development of the African continent. It is a biennial festival and is observed every two years to celebrate the people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans on continent and in the global arena.

PANAFEST is founded on the premise that the arts, particularly theatre,  are powerful tools of communication and healing and that people need to create new expressions and commemorations and platforms for dialogue to provide the inspiration for mobilizing energies for moving on to greater heights.

The PAN African historical theatre project now known as  “Panafest” Festival was inspired by and takes its source from a paper written in the mid-1980s as a cultural vehicle for bringing Africans on the continent and in the diaspora together around the issues raised by slavery which remain prevalent.

The PANAFEST 1980 entitled “Proposal for a Historical Drama Festival in Cape Coast” by Dr. Mrs. Efua Sutherland, who was a distinguished Ghanaian Dramatist and Pan-Africanist. In 1991 the idea gained root and took shape in an expanded form as the Pan-African Historical Theater Festival (PANAFEST).

In October of that year,  “Panafest” was officially launched and in December of the same year, the national phase of the festival was held in Cape Coast, Ghana after a series of activities which included a national playwriting competition, organized seminars and workshops on Pan-Africanism across the country.

These constitute an impediment to the progress of Africans and must be laid to rest. Ghana’s coast line is dotted with large, now silent memorials to over 500 years of this most turbulent era in Africa’s history the festival consciously makes them a site for confronting the effects of enslavement, purging the pain of diaspora, acknowledging the residual effects of the trade on the continent and re-uniting to forge a positive future in the contemporary global environment.

The festival through the Grand Durbar in Cape Coast and the Royal Procession in Assin Manso will feature unique atonement rituals. The now deeply meaningful and popular Reverential Night will take place at Cape Coast Castle Dungeon culminating in the reading of the Emancipation Declaration.

 Jamestown is located directly at the east of Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest cities in Accra, Ghana and its cities emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Dutch Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

These districts were developed at the end of the 19th century, and following the rapid growth of the city during the 20th century, they became areas of a dense mixture of commercial and residential use.

today, both Jamestown and Usshertown remain fishing communities inhabited primarily by the Ga. Although in a state of decay, the districts are significant in the history of Accra which replaced Cape Coast as the capital of Gold Coast (British colony) in 1876. 

The original lighthouse at built at James Fort in 1871, was replaced in the 1930s by the current tower, which is 28 m 92 feet tall. The lighthouse, which is 34 metres 112 feet above sea level, has a visibility of 16 nautical miles 30 km, it overlooks the harbour, James fort, the Bukom district and the Ussher

Jamestown is a tough but moving neighborhood of Accra. There are tons of history to discover as both the British and the Portuguese left behind as a cultural and architectural legacy.

The Jamestown community is close-knit and the atmosphere is lively. Their outmost best street entertainments is boxing and motorcycling. 

Artists Alliance gallery in Accra Ghana has become one of the most important art venues in Ghana. Three expansive art floors were exhibited in the cool marble gallery, exhibited by famous artists such as Owusu Ankomah and George Hughes, whose paintings reminiscent of Jean Michel Basquiat and Willem De Kooning, while other painters It is a new and upcoming artist such as Ebenezer Borlabie. 

Market, country and urban scenes are full of political satire - of course, Glover himself has caged characters and intermittent crowd scenes.

On display are crabs, you will see the artistic designs for running shoes and eagle-shaped full-size coffins. Everything is for sale.

The Artists Alliance Gallery has been dedicated to bringing attention to traditional and contemporary African art worldwide. The mission of the gallery is to provide art connoisseurs with rich and authentic contemporary art and traditional African art.

Ghana has over the years made tremendous progress towards achieving accelerated development with the use of ICT and one of such ICT landmarks is the introduction and usage of drones in Ghana.  

Drones have generally had a sinister image, mainly due to its use by the military to track enemy combatants. Drones currently have key roles in aerial photographs and videos, real estate photography, elections monitoring, remote sensing, automated package delivery, and search and rescue in humanitarian response. 

Improvements in technology and lowering cost has led to the remodeling of drones to have development applications to contribute in growth in sectors such as health, agriculture, security, road safety and traffic management; natural resource management, aerial photography, 3-D mapping; search and rescue, among others.

If you’d like to contact the GCAA directly before you travel with any questions you might have, here is their contact information: info@gcaagh.com / +233 21 776 177

General Rules for Flying a Drone in Ghana

1. All drones must be registered with the GCAA. Registration fees may cost up to $4,000, and failure to register a drone can result in a 30 year prison term.
2. Do not fly within 10 kilometers (6 miles) of airports or helipads.
3. Do not fly drones higher that 400 feet vertically.
4. Visual line of sight must be maintained with drones.
5. Drone insurance is required.
6. Drones may only be operated at night with a special permit from the GCAA.
7. Drones may not fly in restricted areas.
8. Goods may not be dropped or transported via drone without prior special authorization.
9. Drone operator must be at least 18 years of age.
10. Flight into icy conditions is prohibited.
11. Drones may not be operated in congested areas of cities, towns, or settlements. Additionally drones may not be flown over crowds.
12. Drones may not fly within a 30 meter (98 feet) radius of buildings or vehicles without prior express permission.

 1. Productivity in Ghana is at a higher rate than its neighboring nations.

Ghana uses 6% of its GDP to pay for education, one of the highest percentages in the world. It is a participant in world trade. Gold, cocoa and oil are three of Ghana’s primary exports. This keeps profits high enough to continue to educate and train younger citizens to farm and harvest. For example, the GDP (gross domestic product) of the neighboring country Togo is less than Ghana. Meanwhile, 30% of the population in Togo lives below the poverty line (2,366,700 people). Ghana’s percentage of those below the poverty line is 23.4% (6,966,180 people).

2. In 2017, students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology developed a solar-powered vehicle for transport called “aCar” to further explore the transportation needs of the country. 

Mostly, Ghanaian farmers need transportation to and from the town markets (especially rural farmers) and also carry the goods that they need to sell. The aCar became a convenient way to transport goods and trade with other farmers at markets in town. The car is solar-powered, does not require fossil fuel and also save them money.

3. Chailes Ofori Antipem's Textbook Invention

He created a science set, a small black box the size and price (at $15) of a textbook packed with electrical kit.Being able to put the sets on the desks of the students and see that glow in their eyes when they build that first electrical circuit, he says. "That is what keeps us going."Charles set up his company Dext Technology 18 months ago. He now has nine members of staff, and has so far sold more than 5,000 sets to government and private schools across Ghana.

The idea started with his roommate, Michael Asante Afrifa, in their dorm room at university. They want every child in Ghana to have access to one in the next two years.Getting the knowledge from the book is one thing but being able to experience it with experimentation is what is really important".

But sub-Saharan Africa is massively lagging behind in terms of its investment in STEM education and training. As a region on its own, the UN states it will need 2.5 million engineers alone just to meet its sustainable development goal (SDG) of improving access to clean water and sanitation.

Dr Thomas Tagoe, a member of the Ghana Science Association, says instilling in children a love of science is particularly important as the country does not have enough engineers and IT specialists.

4. Accra has become the home and the hub for technological advancement and the future of the nation’s development. 

Accra is a home to many tech firms and startup ideas. Accra has become the host for pharmaceutical companies like “mPedigree” and “Rancard” that provide telecommunication services with other companies in the region. 

Setting up these telecommunication companies in the heart of Ghana’s metropolitan city has helped thousands of students, growing up in Ghana is difficult not to talk about finding a path and way of learning. 

The median age in Ghana is 21 years old (5,230,050 people within the age range of 15-24). The future of Ghana is relying on young citizens to develop and further produce technological solutions to the prominent issues that currently lack such.

5. Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra is providing complete IT training, funding for software startups and even mentorship for all students.

Having more young people trained in IT is helpful for the progression of technology and productivity within the nation. These schools and programs give young Ghanaians inspiration, hope and prosperity for their future and that of the nation. Students originating from rural cities and towns are learning skills that they can use internationally or locally. They are learning environmental and technological problem-solving. Tech hubs like Impact Hub Accra, iSpace and MEST are working the minds of those who want to learn to develop their communities.

 Despite being physically challenged with no arms to facilitate her daily routine, as teacher has become an inspiration to many people after a photo of her holding a chalk with her lips to write on a board went viral.

Louisa Enyonam Ansah, a teacher at Adoagyiri R/C school in Kasoa, has reinforced the narrative that disability is not inability.

A recent photo of the teacher with a felt-tip pen in her mouth writing on a board has surfaced on social media.

Despite having no arms to hold a pen writing while teaching, madam Enyonam is seen holding the tip of a marker with her mouth to write.

With her effort, regardless of the herculean challenge has many lauding the teacher for surmounting the difficulty to transfer knowledge to her pupils.

This teacher conveys a powerful message which goes beyond the classroom. She teaches a subject about leadership and  moving out of their comfort zones and beat down the difficulties in life to become winners.

She said what one does can only become visible when they dare to be extraordinarily different. Enyonam defines true resilience in the face of an obvious challenge.

This message is a message of encouragement and to the student. They can become who they want to be in future. And the people who are willing to shape their minds and paradigms regardless of the daunting challenges present.

Hopefully, more people would be encouraged to look beyond what ever incapacitates them to impact society positively.

 Mole National Park covers a large savannah filled with African elephants, buffalos, baboons, warthogs, and kob antelopes.

The park is a home to almost 90 mammal species and at least 300 bird species. 734 species of flower plants, 56 butterfly species, and enough bird species to attract avid birders, 300 species, including the white-backed vulture and Senegal parrot. Between December and April is the best time for elephant sightings, though you’re guaranteed to see plenty of mammals’ year round.

The park allows walking and driving in the safaris and you can rent a park vehicle if you don’t have your own.

Mole National Park offers what must surely be the cheapest safaris in Africa and is the Ghana's largest wildlife refuge where you see the animals and even touch them.

The park was established in 1964, though the land was first set aside as a game reserve in 1958, a year after Ghana’s independence from Britain. The park spans about 3,000 square miles, fed by the seasonal Lovi and Mole rivers. 

There are motel and swimming pool that can be seeing from a cliffside out across the savanna woodland, you can watch herds of elephants meandering by the water holes below.

However, because of the few dozen villages located near the park boundaries, subsistence hunting continues to pose a problem for preserving the wildlife. What’s more, the elephants’ former migration route into southern Burkina Faso has been obstructed by human settlement, and seemingly less frequented as a result.

PANAFEST is an event dedicated to the African dance, music and other performing arts. Also known as the 'Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival', Panfest is a cultural event that aims and endeavors towards the enhancement of the ideals of Pan-Africanism and the development of the African continent. It is a biennial festival and is observed every two years to celebrate the people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans on continent and in the global arena.

PANAFEST is founded on the premise that the arts, particularly theatre,  are powerful tools of communication and healing and that people need to create new expressions and commemorations and platforms for dialogue to provide the inspiration for mobilizing energies for moving on to greater heights.

The PAN African historical theatre project now known as  “Panafest” Festival was inspired by and takes its source from a paper written in the mid-1980s as a cultural vehicle for bringing Africans on the continent and in the diaspora together around the issues raised by slavery which remain prevalent.

The PANAFEST 1980 entitled “Proposal for a Historical Drama Festival in Cape Coast” by Dr. Mrs. Efua Sutherland, who was a distinguished Ghanaian Dramatist and Pan-Africanist. In 1991 the idea gained root and took shape in an expanded form as the Pan-African Historical Theater Festival (PANAFEST).

In October of that year,  “Panafest” was officially launched and in December of the same year, the national phase of the festival was held in Cape Coast, Ghana after a series of activities which included a national playwriting competition, organized seminars and workshops on Pan-Africanism across the country.

These constitute an impediment to the progress of Africans and must be laid to rest. Ghana’s coast line is dotted with large, now silent memorials to over 500 years of this most turbulent era in Africa’s history the festival consciously makes them a site for confronting the effects of enslavement, purging the pain of diaspora, acknowledging the residual effects of the trade on the continent and re-uniting to forge a positive future in the contemporary global environment.

The festival through the Grand Durbar in Cape Coast and the Royal Procession in Assin Manso will feature unique atonement rituals. The now deeply meaningful and popular Reverential Night will take place at Cape Coast Castle Dungeon culminating in the reading of the Emancipation Declaration.

 Jamestown is located directly at the east of Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest cities in Accra, Ghana and its cities emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Dutch Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

These districts were developed at the end of the 19th century, and following the rapid growth of the city during the 20th century, they became areas of a dense mixture of commercial and residential use.

today, both Jamestown and Usshertown remain fishing communities inhabited primarily by the Ga. Although in a state of decay, the districts are significant in the history of Accra which replaced Cape Coast as the capital of Gold Coast (British colony) in 1876. 

The original lighthouse at built at James Fort in 1871, was replaced in the 1930s by the current tower, which is 28 m 92 feet tall. The lighthouse, which is 34 metres 112 feet above sea level, has a visibility of 16 nautical miles 30 km, it overlooks the harbour, James fort, the Bukom district and the Ussher

Jamestown is a tough but moving neighborhood of Accra. There are tons of history to discover as both the British and the Portuguese left behind as a cultural and architectural legacy.

The Jamestown community is close-knit and the atmosphere is lively. Their outmost best street entertainments is boxing and motorcycling. 

Artists Alliance gallery in Accra Ghana has become one of the most important art venues in Ghana. Three expansive art floors were exhibited in the cool marble gallery, exhibited by famous artists such as Owusu Ankomah and George Hughes, whose paintings reminiscent of Jean Michel Basquiat and Willem De Kooning, while other painters It is a new and upcoming artist such as Ebenezer Borlabie. 

Market, country and urban scenes are full of political satire - of course, Glover himself has caged characters and intermittent crowd scenes.

On display are crabs, you will see the artistic designs for running shoes and eagle-shaped full-size coffins. Everything is for sale.

The Artists Alliance Gallery has been dedicated to bringing attention to traditional and contemporary African art worldwide. The mission of the gallery is to provide art connoisseurs with rich and authentic contemporary art and traditional African art.

Ghana has over the years made tremendous progress towards achieving accelerated development with the use of ICT and one of such ICT landmarks is the introduction and usage of drones in Ghana.  

Drones have generally had a sinister image, mainly due to its use by the military to track enemy combatants. Drones currently have key roles in aerial photographs and videos, real estate photography, elections monitoring, remote sensing, automated package delivery, and search and rescue in humanitarian response. 

Improvements in technology and lowering cost has led to the remodeling of drones to have development applications to contribute in growth in sectors such as health, agriculture, security, road safety and traffic management; natural resource management, aerial photography, 3-D mapping; search and rescue, among others.

If you’d like to contact the GCAA directly before you travel with any questions you might have, here is their contact information: info@gcaagh.com / +233 21 776 177

General Rules for Flying a Drone in Ghana

1. All drones must be registered with the GCAA. Registration fees may cost up to $4,000, and failure to register a drone can result in a 30 year prison term.
2. Do not fly within 10 kilometers (6 miles) of airports or helipads.
3. Do not fly drones higher that 400 feet vertically.
4. Visual line of sight must be maintained with drones.
5. Drone insurance is required.
6. Drones may only be operated at night with a special permit from the GCAA.
7. Drones may not fly in restricted areas.
8. Goods may not be dropped or transported via drone without prior special authorization.
9. Drone operator must be at least 18 years of age.
10. Flight into icy conditions is prohibited.
11. Drones may not be operated in congested areas of cities, towns, or settlements. Additionally drones may not be flown over crowds.
12. Drones may not fly within a 30 meter (98 feet) radius of buildings or vehicles without prior express permission.

 1. Productivity in Ghana is at a higher rate than its neighboring nations.

Ghana uses 6% of its GDP to pay for education, one of the highest percentages in the world. It is a participant in world trade. Gold, cocoa and oil are three of Ghana’s primary exports. This keeps profits high enough to continue to educate and train younger citizens to farm and harvest. For example, the GDP (gross domestic product) of the neighboring country Togo is less than Ghana. Meanwhile, 30% of the population in Togo lives below the poverty line (2,366,700 people). Ghana’s percentage of those below the poverty line is 23.4% (6,966,180 people).

2. In 2017, students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology developed a solar-powered vehicle for transport called “aCar” to further explore the transportation needs of the country. 

Mostly, Ghanaian farmers need transportation to and from the town markets (especially rural farmers) and also carry the goods that they need to sell. The aCar became a convenient way to transport goods and trade with other farmers at markets in town. The car is solar-powered, does not require fossil fuel and also save them money.

3. Chailes Ofori Antipem's Textbook Invention

He created a science set, a small black box the size and price (at $15) of a textbook packed with electrical kit.Being able to put the sets on the desks of the students and see that glow in their eyes when they build that first electrical circuit, he says. "That is what keeps us going."Charles set up his company Dext Technology 18 months ago. He now has nine members of staff, and has so far sold more than 5,000 sets to government and private schools across Ghana.

The idea started with his roommate, Michael Asante Afrifa, in their dorm room at university. They want every child in Ghana to have access to one in the next two years.Getting the knowledge from the book is one thing but being able to experience it with experimentation is what is really important".

But sub-Saharan Africa is massively lagging behind in terms of its investment in STEM education and training. As a region on its own, the UN states it will need 2.5 million engineers alone just to meet its sustainable development goal (SDG) of improving access to clean water and sanitation.

Dr Thomas Tagoe, a member of the Ghana Science Association, says instilling in children a love of science is particularly important as the country does not have enough engineers and IT specialists.

4. Accra has become the home and the hub for technological advancement and the future of the nation’s development. 

Accra is a home to many tech firms and startup ideas. Accra has become the host for pharmaceutical companies like “mPedigree” and “Rancard” that provide telecommunication services with other companies in the region. 

Setting up these telecommunication companies in the heart of Ghana’s metropolitan city has helped thousands of students, growing up in Ghana is difficult not to talk about finding a path and way of learning. 

The median age in Ghana is 21 years old (5,230,050 people within the age range of 15-24). The future of Ghana is relying on young citizens to develop and further produce technological solutions to the prominent issues that currently lack such.

5. Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra is providing complete IT training, funding for software startups and even mentorship for all students.

Having more young people trained in IT is helpful for the progression of technology and productivity within the nation. These schools and programs give young Ghanaians inspiration, hope and prosperity for their future and that of the nation. Students originating from rural cities and towns are learning skills that they can use internationally or locally. They are learning environmental and technological problem-solving. Tech hubs like Impact Hub Accra, iSpace and MEST are working the minds of those who want to learn to develop their communities.

 Despite being physically challenged with no arms to facilitate her daily routine, as teacher has become an inspiration to many people after a photo of her holding a chalk with her lips to write on a board went viral.

Louisa Enyonam Ansah, a teacher at Adoagyiri R/C school in Kasoa, has reinforced the narrative that disability is not inability.

A recent photo of the teacher with a felt-tip pen in her mouth writing on a board has surfaced on social media.

Despite having no arms to hold a pen writing while teaching, madam Enyonam is seen holding the tip of a marker with her mouth to write.

With her effort, regardless of the herculean challenge has many lauding the teacher for surmounting the difficulty to transfer knowledge to her pupils.

This teacher conveys a powerful message which goes beyond the classroom. She teaches a subject about leadership and  moving out of their comfort zones and beat down the difficulties in life to become winners.

She said what one does can only become visible when they dare to be extraordinarily different. Enyonam defines true resilience in the face of an obvious challenge.

This message is a message of encouragement and to the student. They can become who they want to be in future. And the people who are willing to shape their minds and paradigms regardless of the daunting challenges present.

Hopefully, more people would be encouraged to look beyond what ever incapacitates them to impact society positively.

 Mole National Park covers a large savannah filled with African elephants, buffalos, baboons, warthogs, and kob antelopes.

The park is a home to almost 90 mammal species and at least 300 bird species. 734 species of flower plants, 56 butterfly species, and enough bird species to attract avid birders, 300 species, including the white-backed vulture and Senegal parrot. Between December and April is the best time for elephant sightings, though you’re guaranteed to see plenty of mammals’ year round.

The park allows walking and driving in the safaris and you can rent a park vehicle if you don’t have your own.

Mole National Park offers what must surely be the cheapest safaris in Africa and is the Ghana's largest wildlife refuge where you see the animals and even touch them.

The park was established in 1964, though the land was first set aside as a game reserve in 1958, a year after Ghana’s independence from Britain. The park spans about 3,000 square miles, fed by the seasonal Lovi and Mole rivers. 

There are motel and swimming pool that can be seeing from a cliffside out across the savanna woodland, you can watch herds of elephants meandering by the water holes below.

However, because of the few dozen villages located near the park boundaries, subsistence hunting continues to pose a problem for preserving the wildlife. What’s more, the elephants’ former migration route into southern Burkina Faso has been obstructed by human settlement, and seemingly less frequented as a result.

PANAFEST is an event dedicated to the African dance, music and other performing arts. Also known as the 'Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival', Panfest is a cultural event that aims and endeavors towards the enhancement of the ideals of Pan-Africanism and the development of the African continent. It is a biennial festival and is observed every two years to celebrate the people of African descent as well as all persons committed to the well being of Africans on continent and in the global arena.

PANAFEST is founded on the premise that the arts, particularly theatre,  are powerful tools of communication and healing and that people need to create new expressions and commemorations and platforms for dialogue to provide the inspiration for mobilizing energies for moving on to greater heights.

The PAN African historical theatre project now known as  “Panafest” Festival was inspired by and takes its source from a paper written in the mid-1980s as a cultural vehicle for bringing Africans on the continent and in the diaspora together around the issues raised by slavery which remain prevalent.

The PANAFEST 1980 entitled “Proposal for a Historical Drama Festival in Cape Coast” by Dr. Mrs. Efua Sutherland, who was a distinguished Ghanaian Dramatist and Pan-Africanist. In 1991 the idea gained root and took shape in an expanded form as the Pan-African Historical Theater Festival (PANAFEST).

In October of that year,  “Panafest” was officially launched and in December of the same year, the national phase of the festival was held in Cape Coast, Ghana after a series of activities which included a national playwriting competition, organized seminars and workshops on Pan-Africanism across the country.

These constitute an impediment to the progress of Africans and must be laid to rest. Ghana’s coast line is dotted with large, now silent memorials to over 500 years of this most turbulent era in Africa’s history the festival consciously makes them a site for confronting the effects of enslavement, purging the pain of diaspora, acknowledging the residual effects of the trade on the continent and re-uniting to forge a positive future in the contemporary global environment.

The festival through the Grand Durbar in Cape Coast and the Royal Procession in Assin Manso will feature unique atonement rituals. The now deeply meaningful and popular Reverential Night will take place at Cape Coast Castle Dungeon culminating in the reading of the Emancipation Declaration.

 Jamestown is located directly at the east of Korle Lagoon, Jamestown and Usshertown are the oldest cities in Accra, Ghana and its cities emerged as communities around the 17th century British James Fort and Dutch Ussher Fort on the Gulf of Guinea coast.

These districts were developed at the end of the 19th century, and following the rapid growth of the city during the 20th century, they became areas of a dense mixture of commercial and residential use.

today, both Jamestown and Usshertown remain fishing communities inhabited primarily by the Ga. Although in a state of decay, the districts are significant in the history of Accra which replaced Cape Coast as the capital of Gold Coast (British colony) in 1876. 

The original lighthouse at built at James Fort in 1871, was replaced in the 1930s by the current tower, which is 28 m 92 feet tall. The lighthouse, which is 34 metres 112 feet above sea level, has a visibility of 16 nautical miles 30 km, it overlooks the harbour, James fort, the Bukom district and the Ussher

Jamestown is a tough but moving neighborhood of Accra. There are tons of history to discover as both the British and the Portuguese left behind as a cultural and architectural legacy.

The Jamestown community is close-knit and the atmosphere is lively. Their outmost best street entertainments is boxing and motorcycling. 

Artists Alliance gallery in Accra Ghana has become one of the most important art venues in Ghana. Three expansive art floors were exhibited in the cool marble gallery, exhibited by famous artists such as Owusu Ankomah and George Hughes, whose paintings reminiscent of Jean Michel Basquiat and Willem De Kooning, while other painters It is a new and upcoming artist such as Ebenezer Borlabie. 

Market, country and urban scenes are full of political satire - of course, Glover himself has caged characters and intermittent crowd scenes.

On display are crabs, you will see the artistic designs for running shoes and eagle-shaped full-size coffins. Everything is for sale.

The Artists Alliance Gallery has been dedicated to bringing attention to traditional and contemporary African art worldwide. The mission of the gallery is to provide art connoisseurs with rich and authentic contemporary art and traditional African art.