In Ghana’s Greater Accra Region, in the Korley Klottey Municipal Assembly, is the town of Adabraka. When Ghana was ruled by the British, it was the country’s first and most affluent neighbourhood. The O’Reilly Senior High School was Adabraka’s claim to fame. The institution is a second-cycle school, although it has moved to Okpoi Gonno in Teshie.
The African University College of Communication (AUCC), the Ghana Institute of Languages (GIL), the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology (CIBT), and the University of Ghana Accra City Campus are the four tertiary institutions located in the town. Adabraka is where the Accra Psychiatry Hospital is situated. Adabraka is home to another polyclinic, the Adabraka Polyclinic, which is located directly across from the Accra Psychiatric Hospital. Along Barnes Road in Adabraka, there is also the Accra Rehabilitation Center.
The town is one of the popular places in Accra. Adabraka might not be a tourist destination in Accra but it is one of the best places to stay in Accra for locals looking for new areas. The Holy Spirit Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra and it is located in the area. The edifice, an imposing architecture, is second to none in the country. It has served as an important space for many Archdiocesan and National celebrations. Many people from all walks of life, both young and old, nationals and non-nationals have been associated with the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Adabraka. The welcoming ambience of the Cathedral grounds and its striking calmness within the threshold of the liturgical space evokes such a perfect divine presence that can hardly go unnoticed.
History Of Adabraka
Despite being a recent Accra neighbourhood, Adabraka has a hidden past that dates back to distant fabled eras. Long before the Gold Coast was established, Muslim traders from the North would travel south to market their wares while wearing their dignified robes and royal turbans.
The crossroads where Adabraka developed is where the moon directs its silvery gaze toward the earth. The merchants would arrive by midnight, set up tents, and wait until dawn to begin bartering their commodities as the night shimmered in a blue, silvery sheen. They carried exotic curiosities, Islamic texts and prayer beads, wooden crafts, leather goods, cola, and tiger nuts, as well as livestock to sell to purchasers from the coast, such as goats, lambs, millet, and yams.
At this intersection, today known as Adabraka Market, buyers, sellers, and traders would gather to trade. By appealing to one another, or “ada-braka,” the buyers bargain and discuss prices with the sellers in an effort to get a better deal. Ada-braka, oh? I’ve already lowered the price,” the vendor will assert. The buyer requests that you lower your pricing since it is too high. The buyer haggles, begs, and sweet-talks the seller, using alluring language to induce the seller to lower the price.
The buyer can then choose to accept the merchant’s terms or continue negotiating until a mutually agreeable price is achieved and the sale is consummated. Oral thespians assert that the word’s Arabic roots are al baraka, which means “blessings,” and that the buyer’s statement that “if you lower down the price, Allah would bless you” is how the name “Adabraka” came to be.
Adabraka was arranged in a kind fluidity of lines that gave the impression that they were intended to measure Accra’s breadth and length, to ascertain how Ghana’s future would unfold over its unfathomable distances, beyond the realm of our own comprehension. Before Ghana was born, all of this was completed.
Adabraka Map
Adabraka is a town in the Korley Klottey Municipal Assembly, a Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It was the first and the poshest neighbourhood in Ghana during the British era.
