Category Market

A Ghana souvenir price guide in cedis: ballpark fair prices for kente, beads, baskets, carvings, drums and shea butter, plus how to bargain and tell quality from tat.

A guide to Ghana's shopping malls: Accra Mall, West Hills (the largest), Marina, Achimota and Kumasi City Mall, what's inside, card payments, and when a mall is worth your time.

How to shop the Accra Arts Centre (Centre for National Culture): what to buy, fair prices, how to bargain, and how to handle the hustle at Accra's main craft market.

A guide to Accra's art galleries: Gallery 1957, Artists Alliance, Nubuke Foundation and ANO, the global Ghanaian artists behind the scene, and how to explore and buy.

A guide to buying shea butter in Ghana: raw vs refined, the northern women's cooperatives, African black soap, what to pay, and how to use this nourishing 'women's gold'.

A guide to the Koforidua Thursday bead market and Krobo glass beads: where to buy, the Cedi Beads workshops, bead types, what to pay, and the culture behind them.

A guide to Bolgatanga baskets: how the famous Ghanaian straw baskets are woven from elephant grass, where to buy them, what to pay, and how to pack them home.

Where to buy authentic kente in Ghana: the Ashanti weaving villages of Bonwire and Adanwomase, the Arts Centre, how to tell hand-woven from printed kente, and what to pay.

A guide to Ghana's greatest markets: Makola in Accra, Kejetia in Kumasi, Kantamanto, Techiman and Bolgatanga, what to buy, what to expect, and how to navigate them safely.

A guide to shopping in Ghana: kente and adinkra cloth, glass beads, Bolga baskets, shea butter, carvings and art, where to buy them, and how to bargain for a fair price.