Accra: Meet Makola's Market Women & Learn Their Trade

Step into Makola through the lives of its market women. Visit female traders at their stalls, hear how they run their businesses, and discover the skills and networks behind their trade.
Discover Makola Market from a perspective most visitors never get to experience – through the women who work, trade, and build their businesses here every day.

Makola is one of Accra’s best-known markets, filled with narrow passages, busy stalls, shoppers, vendors, colors, sounds, and an incredible variety of goods. But behind the bustle is a world of businesses, relationships, knowledge, and trading networks – and women are at the heart of it.

Together with your local host, make your way through different parts of the market and visit selected female traders at their stalls. Meet women selling different types of goods and hear directly from them about their businesses and everyday working lives. Find out how they became traders, how long they have worked at Makola, where their products come from, and what it takes to keep a business running in one of Accra’s busiest commercial areas.

Discover how traders source and sell their goods, build relationships with customers and suppliers, and navigate the challenges of daily market life. Hear how knowledge, skills, and businesses can be passed between generations and explore the importance of personal networks and relationships in trade.

Along the way, learn why women have played such an important role in Ghana’s markets for generations. Discover some of the structures behind market life, including the role of market queens and the ways traders organize themselves within different areas and product groups.

As you explore, discover areas selling fabrics, food, cosmetics, household goods, traditional products, and much more. Your host will help you understand what you see along the way, from where different products come from to how particular parts of the market have developed their own character.

And of course, Makola is a place for shopping. If something catches your eye, there will be time to browse and make your own purchases. Your host can help you navigate the market, communicate with traders, and better understand how buying and negotiating work in everyday market life.

But this experience goes beyond walking through Makola or simply shopping there. It is an opportunity to spend time with some of the women behind the market, ask questions, hear their stories firsthand, and gain a more personal insight into a place that can otherwise feel overwhelming to a first-time visitor.

Leave with a different understanding of Makola – not just as a place to shop, but as a place of work, entrepreneurship, community, and generations of female traders.

The tour starts at an easy-to-find meeting point near Makola Market. After the tour, you can continue shopping or explore the surrounding area independently, or your host will accompany you back to the starting point.

För att garantera tillgänglighet, boka så snart som möjligt. Tidig bokning är värt att överväga, särskilt om du planerar resan under högsäsong som allmänna helgdagar eller helger.

Denna utflykt kan du avboka utan kostnad upp till 24 timmar före resans start. Om du avbokar efter 24 timmar eller inte dyker upp på utflykten kommer du fortfarande att debiteras hela priset för aktiviteten. Att vara sen vid upphämtning eller avresa kommer att betraktas som att inte dyka upp.