Places & Knowledge
Traditional areas, forts and standing structures, communities, chieftaincy, festivals, regalia, architecture, oral histories, cultural terminology and the journeys that connect them. Each is held as a record in its own right, and opening one brings everything attached to it: archive records, photographs, recordings, people, objects, books, research and programmes.
Historic and cultural sites across all 16 regions of Ghana.
Chieftaincy, regalia, rites, festivals, language, music and local knowledge.
Forts & castles surveyed with The National Archives, UK.
Community voices, memories and cultural knowledge.
Ghana through time.
Key terms across Ghana’s cultures and languages.
Peer-reviewed scholarship on Ghana, gathered with its authors.
Objects of Ghanaian origin held around the world.
Living Structures
The forts, castles and standing buildings of the coast and the interior, surveyed with The National Archives, UK, as places still in use rather than ruins — with the communities, records and oral accounts attached to each site.
My Si Hene holdings
Oral history recordings, the cultural glossary, the timeline and the global artifacts map are held in My Si Hene, alongside every place record with its survey notes and fieldwork attachments.