Accra

== Culture ==
[[File:Ak ghana.jpg|thumb|The [[Black Star Square]] in Accra]]

[[Tourism in Ghana]] accounted for 1,087,000 international tourist arrivals in 2011.<ref name="Ghana To Earn US$8.3 Billion From Tourism By 2027">{{cite web |url=http://ghanaonlinenews.com/ghana-to-earn-8-3-billion-usd-from-tourism-by-2027/ |title=Ghana To Earn 8.3 Billion USD From Tourism By 2027 |work=ghanaonlinenews.com |date=3 April 2014 |access-date=3 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814151418/http://www.ghanaonlinenews.com/ghana-to-earn-8-3-billion-usd-from-tourism-by-2027/ |archive-date=14 August 2016}}</ref>
Accra is the Greater Accra region's tourist hub, sporting a wide variety of hotels, monuments, museums and nightclubs. The city has three [[five-star hotel]]s: the Labadi Beach Hotel, the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel and the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel. The Golden Tulip Hotel and Novotel Accra, located in Accra's central business district, are both ranked four stars. There are numerous three-star hotels, including the Hotel Wangara, Hotel Shangri-La and Erata Hotel, as well as many budget hotels. The [[Accra International Conference Centre]] and other meeting facilities provide venues for conference tourism.<ref name="ouring Ghana&nbsp;– Greater Accra Region">[http://www.touringghana.com/regions/greateraccra_region.asp Touring Ghana&nbsp;– Greater Accra Region] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411133930/http://www.touringghana.com/regions/greateraccra_region.asp |date=11 April 2012 }}. touringghana.com.</ref>

The Du Bois Centre houses a research library and gallery of manuscripts, as well as the graves of its namesake, the scholar [[W.E.B. Du Bois]], and his wife [[Shirley Graham Du Bois]]. The [[Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum]] is the resting place of Ghana's first President, [[Kwame Nkrumah]], who oversaw the Gold Coast's independence from Britain and was a leading exponent of [[Pan-Africanism]].

The [[National Theatre (Accra)|National Theatre]] in Accra, home of the [[National Symphony Orchestra Ghana]]

Accra furthermore hosts the [[National Museum of Ghana|National Museum]], [[National Theatre (Accra)|National Theatre]], with its distinctive modern [[Chinese architecture]].

The city's foremost historical site is the Jamestown area, which contains the [[Ussher Fort]] and [[Fort James, Ghana|James Fort]], and [[Osu Castle]] (also known as [[Christiansborg]]), built by Danish settlers in the 17th century.

Other sites of note include the [[The Flagstaff House|Jubilee House]] (the office of the [[Government of Ghana]] and the [[President of Ghana]]), the [[Parliament House of Ghana]], the [[Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT]], the [[Black Star Square]], [[Accra Sports Stadium]], and the Accra Centre for National Culture. The Accra-based [[African Fashion Foundation]] supports the [[Clothing in Africa|African fashion industry]], especially the fashion industry in [[Ghana]].

Accra has an Atlantic beachfront and the most popular of the city's beaches is [[Labadi Beach]], along with Kokrobite Beach, which is located {{convert|25|km|mi|abbr=off}} west of Accra. The [[beachfront]] area also houses the Academy of African Music and Arts.

Ghana's film industry is growing. Its first documentary addressing the impacts of climate change premiered in Accra on 14 October 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=GNA |date=16 October 2022 |title=First Ghanaian Film on Climate Change to showcase at COP27 |url=https://gna.org.gh/2022/10/first-ghanaian-film-on-climate-change-to-showcase-at-cop27/ |access-date=18 October 2022 |website=Ghana News Agency |language=en-US}}</ref> '''''The Ghana Youth Film Program''''' is a compilation film of 12 documentary short films made youth from across Ghana aged 18 to 30. It participated in the United Nations climate summit, COP27, on 9{{nbsp}}November 2022.