Gargantuan: Hip Hop Heavyweights

Gargantuan: Hip Hop Heavyweights

] Akwaaba Music presents: Gargantuan – Hip Hop Heavyweights Wednesday 28th August 2013 -  7.30pm, La Paillote Takpekpe...

First steps in Accra

First steps in Accra

We were lucky... LA to Accra via Amsterdam was relatively smooth... No one got stranded in post-volcano Europe, we...

Ghana 2010: the saga begins!

Ghana 2010: the saga begins!

Pretty funny start to our adventure, below are the directions to the house where we're staying in Accra: "In west...

Pitchfork on West African music

Pitchfork on West African music

(photo by Andrea Bergart) Too often, when we see the words "African music" in  a major music site, they're in the same...

Super Akwaaba Maquis Mobile

Super Akwaaba Maquis Mobile

In honor of all the maquis, chop bars and other bass pounding watering holes encountered on his journeys to Africa,...

Nightlife in Accra

Nightlife in Accra

It's almost my last night here in Accra, and my local contact ABK is taking me to Osu to witness some bigger scale...