Destination — Ghana

Some trips change your camera roll. This one changes your life. Ghana is the beating heart of West Africa — English-speaking, famously welcoming, and the spiritual home of the African diaspora. Since the Year of Return, Accra has become one of the most meaningful destinations on Earth for African-American travelers, and it is one of the friendliest and most manageable introductions to the continent you could ask for. Even better: there's a nonstop flight from Atlanta straight to Accra.

And the women of Ghana? They run it. Makola Market — the commercial engine of Accra — is famously powered by generations of market women. Ghana has one of the highest rates of women's entrepreneurship in the world, from shea butter and kente weaving cooperatives to fashion houses and restaurants. True to our mission, we stay with, eat with, shop with and learn from women-owned businesses at every stop — so your vacation leaves the communities you visit stronger than you found them.

Summer 2026 — Panafest & Emancipation

2026 is a Panafest year — and we'll be there for it:

PANAFEST 2026 — July 25 to August 3 — the biennial Pan-African Festival of Arts and Culture: ten days of music, dance, theatre and ceremony across Accra and Cape Coast, celebrating African heritage, unity and resilience.
Emancipation Day — August 1 at Cape Coast Castle — candlelight vigils, wreath-laying and reverent ceremony at the castles where the transatlantic slave trade began. Standing at the Door of No Return is a moment our travelers describe as the most powerful of their lives.
Assin Manso Ancestral Slave River Site — the last bathing place of enslaved ancestors before Cape Coast, now a place of remembrance and return.

This is more than sightseeing. It is homecoming, remembrance and celebration in the same journey — with sisterhood beside you the whole way.

August in Accra — Festival Season

Chale Wote Street Art Festival (August, Jamestown) — Accra's wildest weekend: murals, street painting, spoken word, live music and performance art take over the historic Jamestown district. Free, joyful, and endlessly photographable. Exact dates are announced by the organizers each June.
Homowo Festival (August) — the Ga people's "hooting at hunger" harvest festival: processions of chiefs, drumming, and the sprinkling of kpokpoi through the streets of Accra.

Time your trip with us and you can experience Panafest, Emancipation Day and Accra's festival season in a single unforgettable itinerary.

Places We'll Explore

Black Star Gate, Independence Square, Accra — Black Star Gate & Independence Square — Freedom and Justice, Accra

Cape Coast Castle courtyard — Cape Coast Castle — heritage, remembrance & the Door of No Return

Makola Market entrance, Accra — Makola Market — Accra's legendary market, run by its market women

Jamestown lighthouse, Accra — Jamestown — the historic fishing district & home of Chale Wote

Crowd at Chale Wote Street Art Festival — Chale Wote Street Art Festival — Accra's biggest street party

A young woman weaving kente cloth — Weaving traditions — visiting women artisans at their looms

Also on the list: Elmina Castle and its fishing harbor, the W.E.B. Du Bois Centre and Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, a women-led cooking class (jollof, waakye and kelewele!), Aburi Botanical Gardens, beach time on the Cape Coast, and shopping with women-owned fashion and shea butter businesses in Accra.

Let's Travel Together in Ghana

Come as a traveler. Leave as family.

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