Here are less known neighborhoods of the capital of Ghana that offers insights into the everyday, typical lives of the residents.
Kaneshie
A suburb of Ghana’s Greater Accra Region, Kaneshie is located in the Accra Metropolitan District. The word “Kane Shie Shie” in the Ga-Adangbe, which means “under the lamp” and refers to the market’s early history as a night market, is where the name originated.
Awoshie
Awoshie is a active town with most individuals remaining up late either to purchase or offer. The roads are studded with numerous nourishment joints with waakye and rice being the most common amid the day time.
The evenings are lively with music from different clubs, bars, and so on. Customarily, most of the lands of Awoshie are beneath the Gbawe Kwatei Family Stool Lands.
Chorkor
Within Ghana’s Greater Accra Region lies the Accra Metropolis area, which includes the fishing village and neighborhood of Chorkor. This is where the name “Chorkor” oven originated. Chorkor is a crowded neighborhood.
In Chorkor, the Ga-Dangme ethnic group is the largest, followed by the Akan. Chorkor is equipped with water lines, electricity, clinics, and schools. Azonto, a kind of popular dance move in Ghana, was formulated from this neighborhood.
Sabon Zongo
In Ghana’s Greater Accra Region is the Zongo residential town of Sabon Zango, also known as Sabon Zongo. The Hausa language, where the term “new settlement” is derived, is where the name “Sabon Zango” originated.
Some of the first Hausa settlers in Southern Ghana created the town. Because of the circumstances behind the town’s relocation, it continues to be one of the oldest Zongo villages in the nation.
Circle
The Kwame Nkrumah 3 tier interchange, the first of it kind in Ghana, is found at Circle. The bridge honors the founding president, Kwame Nkrumah, who served as the main motivator for the nation’s struggle to obtain opportunities from Britain.
Mamobi
Ghana’s Greater Accra Region includes the town of Maamobi. The Accra Girls Secondary School is the town’s most famous feature. The educational institution is a second cycle one.
Agbogbloshie
Before it was destroyed by the Ghanaian government in 2021, Agbogbloshie was the name given to a business area on the Korle Lagoon of the Odaw River, close to the heart of Accra, the capital city of Ghana, in the Greater Accra region.
The Agbogbloshie site gained notoriety as a location for externally generated automotive and electrical scrap, primarily from the western world, accumulated near the slum known as “Old Fadama.” It served as the hub of an international network that exported electronic garbage from developed countries, both legally and illegally.
Nima
In Ghana’s More noteworthy Accra Locale, the Zongo private town of Nima is found. The town’s showcase, the Nima showcase, is the reason for its notoriety. “City of the Lord” is how the Ga dialect determines the historical underpinnings of the title Nima.
In the Ga dialect, “Nii” is the titile for ruler, whereas “man” is the word for city. Dissimilar suppositions have been communicated on the title, all things considered. A few, citing the town’s Muslim populace, attest that Nima is an mention to the Arabic term “Ni’ma,” which means endowments.
Starting as early as 1836, Nima is respected as the biggest and most seasoned Zongo community in Ghana. In spite of the fact that the term is for the most part utilized to allude to the two adjoining towns, the villa is habitually alluded to as one-half of the twin community, Mamobi-Nima.
Be that as it may, it has a tall degree of devout and ethnic assortment, comparable to other Zongo towns.
Adabraka
Adabraka is a town in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region. It is part of the Municipality of Korley Klottey Municipal Assembly. During the British era, it was the first and most affluent neighborhood in Ghana. The O’Reilly Senior High School was once the reason Adabraka gained notoriety.
The school, which is a second cycle institution, moved to Okpoi Gonno at Teshie-Nungua in 2010.
POPULAR LOCAL FOOD EATERIES
Find below a list of the most popular local eateries
- Mum’s Kitchen
- Bow
- Dimaensa Restaurant
- Zion’s Hut
- The Chop Bar
- Country Kitchen
- Mangoase
- Azmera Restaurant