There’s Never Been a Better Time to Visit Accra
A year after the opening of Kotoka’s Terminal 3, Ghana’s hub for work and play arrives on the international art scene.
The Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra.
Source: Labadi Beach Hotel
An offer of coffee or warm water is usually as far as most artists go when hosting curious visitors to their creative lair. But when I enter the home studio of Zohra Opoku, a photographer who lives and works in a secluded, woodsy neighborhood in the northern part of Accra, she’s made a fresh salad and a potato casserole in expectation of my visit.
Earlier in the day, I sauntered into the studio of painter Godfried Donkor—who’s exhibited in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem—and was handed a cup of freshly brewed tea. We talked for an hour.