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From Circle to Madina: Reading Accra Through Its Routes

ACCRA STORIES · · 6 min read

Back view of the Circle to Madina heavyweight black t-shirt with a fine route map printed in bone white

Kwame Nkrumah Circle to Madina is a route, but it is also a cross-section of the last fifty years of Accra's expansion.

Outward, in stages

The corridor passes from a dense commercial centre through institutional Accra and out into neighbourhoods that were farmland within living memory.

Reading it end to end is a reasonable summary of how the city absorbed its own growth.

The route as a shared object

Almost everyone who has lived in Accra has an opinion about this journey — how long it takes, when to avoid it, where to get down.

Shared objects like this are the strongest material a cultural brand can work with, because nobody has to be taught what they mean.