There are several activities which go on
in Accra during the night. Gone are the days when people used to sit with their
family members in the evening tuo tell them stories as a form of entertaining
themselves. In this global era, there is a drastic change in the way people
entertain themselves after a hard day’s work.
The word Accra is believed to be derived
from the Akan word nkran , meaning ‘ants’, a reference to the numerous manner
in which the natives of Accra kept re-appearing like army ants during a war
with the Ashanti’s. Accra is the capital city of Ghana, with an estimated urban
population of 4,010,054 as of 2012. It
is also the capital of the Greater Accra Region and of the Accra metropolitan
district, with which it is conterminous. Accra is furthermore the anchor of a larger
metropolitan area, the greater Accra metropolitan area which is inhabited by
about 4million people, making it the second largest metropolitan conglomeration
in Ghana by population and the eleventh
largest metropolitan area in Africa.
Accra serves as the greater Accra regions’
economic and administrative hub. Accra like any other metropolitan city comes
alive in the night. The city offers a wide range of nightlife that every
tourist would surely enjoy. It is a centre of a wide range of nightclubs, restaurants,
live music and bars. Among these nightclubs we have (New Office, Seven Star , Next door , Savannah Club,
Bywell) talking about restaurants we have ( blue gate, Ryan,s Irish pub and
restaurant, Champs). Accra’s nightlife is diverse; there are bars that are not much more than a cooler, a beaded curtain and a
good view of the African night sky. Sometimes these are the best! You can often
find live music or street performers to listen and dance. In addition, a lot of
ex-pat bars and casinos are scattered around OSU.
One can see people selling different kind of
goodies(for example video cds, shoes, dresses, etc) and others buying food
along the roadside, others at the drinking bars, street hawkers seen hawking from one place to the other. Both
sexes entering restaurants, night clubs, drinking bars, visting the cinemas
(silverbird cinema) and a lot of activities to cool them off after a hard
day’s work.
The video exhibited
here is one of the restaurants by name ROOSTER’S restaurant ideally located
off DOME road facing the goil filling station. It is a
nice restaurant which have several services available to its customers, among
these is the ice cream parlor, a grill and barbecue section, snack bar, the
restaurant and many more. It is mostly operated in the evening till late night.
A lot of people troop into this place day in day out especially in the evening
to have a taste of their food and ice cream and relax in their healthy
environment. I personally went there just this week to eat and interact with
some of the customers. I must say their food is very delicious and healthy. It
is good that nightlife options in Accra are not merely concentrated on one
aspect.
