Design
The Slow Return of the Veranda
A younger generation of architects is reopening the shaded threshold between street and home.
Kwesi Mensah / 8 min read
Late morning on a central Accra street: new facades on one side, shopfronts that predate them on the other. Photograph for Port City Review.
Lead story / Design
Accra After the Waterfront
A decade of new civic buildings has changed how the city faces the sea, and how it argues with itself.
Ama Boateng / 11 min read
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Traffic, markets, shade and the small negotiations of an ordinary day.
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Design
Accra After the Waterfront
A decade of new civic buildings has changed how the city faces the sea, and how it argues with itself.
Ama Boateng / 11 min read
Design
The Slow Return of the Veranda
A younger generation of architects is reopening the shaded threshold between street and home.
Kwesi Mensah / 8 min read
City Life
Market Hours: A Morning at Makola
Before the city settles into traffic, the market has already had three conversations.
Nana Yaa Adjei / 7 min read
Culture
Kente in the Age of the Feed
Weavers in Bonwire are renegotiating pattern, price and pace with an audience they will never meet.
Efua Quaye / 9 min read
Culture
The Listening Rooms of Osu
Small venues are rebuilding the city's live-music habit, one Sunday at a time.
Selorm Attah / 6 min read
City Life
How Accra Learned to Walk Again
Sidewalks, shade trees and the quiet politics of a fifteen-minute errand.
Kojo Anaman / 8 min read
From the editor
This issue began with a simple question: what does the city look like when nobody is posing for a photograph? The answers arrived slowly, mostly on foot, usually before the traffic. We publish four times a year and we read everything you send us.
Ama Boateng / Editor
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