Accra City Day Tour with Guide

An advocate for the black community and women’s suffrage, Du Bois spent much his life and career focused on Pan-Africanism and became an organizer of several Pan-African congresses leading the charge to free many African colonies from European control.

While in Ghana, a country where he was a champion for independence, Du Bois, planned his final project, the Encyclopedia Africana. Styled similarly to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the proposed Encyclopedia Africana was an ambitious undertaking that Du Bois hoped would connect the entire African diaspora.

Although Du Bois died in 1963 without completing Encyclopedia Africana, his contributions to the African American experience as a historian, civil rights activist, writer, sociologist and intellectual are vast. The Museum celebrates the influential life he lived, his activism and the scholarly works that continue to serve as essential references regarding racism in America.

Dedicated to the memory of the late Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the memorial park was built on a former British Polo field where Ghana’s independence was declared in 1957. The Mausoleum is a magnificent Marble Monument and the last resting place of the first President of Ghana and his wife, Fathia Nkrumah.

The Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) serves as the legal custodian of Ghana’s material cultural heritage, safeguarding the nation’s invaluable legacy of history, art, and architecture. Established in 1957, GMMB is entrusted with preserving both movable and immovable cultural assets, including UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the historic Forts and Castles, Asante Traditional Buildings, and significant archaeological discoveries.

With a mission to acquire, protect, conserve, and document Ghana’s cultural heritage, GMMB is committed to fostering research, education, and public engagement. We oversee the establishment and management of museums, regulate the export and trade of antiquities, maintain a comprehensive national inventory of cultural assets, and promote awareness through innovative exhibitions and interpretive programs. GMMB stands as a pillar in preserving Ghana’s heritage for future generations, ensuring its history and identity endure.

One of the biggest market in west Africa where goods and services , Customers are help to get African products like Shea butter, black soap, African clothes and a good prices.

Black star square and independence square talks much about the freedom Ghana gain in 6th March 1957.