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Ilona combines continental classics with bold reinventions. We spoke to the founder Shivv Jagtiani.
Forget quiet dinners, Accra’s hottest spots mix food with fashion, music and theatre, turning every night out into a performance.
Records revisits Ghana’s golden era of rhythm and reinvention with Ghana Special: Highlife, a new single-LP edition that distills the electric fusion of highlife, soul, and psychedelia that defined the country’s sound for almost a decade from 1967 to 1976.
In the work of Serge Attukwei Clottey, Ghana’s artistic landscape finds one of its most vital and globally resonant voices. His yellow plastic tapestries, stitched from discarded gallon containers, speak not only to environmental urgency but also to the deep cultural and material entanglements that shape modern Ghana.
Through her project Wollo and the digital community, Ghanaian copywriter and illustrator Aku Addy is transforming social listening into civic storytelling, one conversation, one illustration and one neighbourhood at a time.
As Gallery 1957 continues to define Ghana’s place on the global contemporary art stage, its latest exhibition brings together strikingly distinct voices: painter Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe and multidisciplinary artist Denyse Gawu-Mensah. Exhibited alongside Serge Attukwei Clottey (see page 52), their work deepens the conversation around identity, heritage and the evolving power of Ghanaian creativity.
The Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City’s new dining destination brings Asian-inspired flair and Ghanaian warmth together in one striking space.
Boxing meets community at Goodbox Ghana, where fitness, rhythm and resilience come together in a high-energy studio built for every body.
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A slice of Tokyo tucked into a Melcom Mall, Wasabi offers a refined take on Japanese staples in a relaxed setting.
Tucked into Melcom Mall on Spintex, Hallab Gourmet 1881 brings a welcome burst of Levantine sunshine.
Bold is a beautifully designed all-day dining space housed in a striking atrium-style building.
Nubuke Foundation presents ‘Ending the Beginning’, an exhibition featuring the works of second-generation figurative coffin maker Eric Kpakpo and photographs by Regula Tschumi. Kpakpo’s practice—rooted in Ga funerary traditions and shaped by his apprenticeship with Paa Joe—extends the lineage of figurative coffin making through bold colour, hand-painted surfaces, and refined woodcarving. His forms speak to contemporary expressions of identity, memory, and community.