FAQs
Everything people ask us, answered properly.
If yours is not here, ring the number at the foot of the page — it goes to a person in Osu, not to a queue.
FAQs
What kind of event is this, exactly?
Three nights of music, poetry, quiet spaces and a marketplace, on a ridge an hour above Accra. Somewhere between a festival and a very large family gathering — open skies, grounded people, and a crowd that mostly knows each other by the second night.
Where is the venue?
The old nursery grounds on the Aburi ridge, about forty-five minutes out of Accra on a good day and ninety on a Friday. We send a pin, a bus timetable and a walking route from the lorry station once you have a ticket.
Is there camping?
Not this edition. Each night runs from two in the afternoon until late, and guests go home or to somewhere nearby. We keep a list of guesthouses on the ridge and in Aburi town, and the last shuttle back into Accra leaves an hour after the final set.
Will there be food?
A rotating row of eleven vendors, all of them from Aburi or Accra, cooking until close. Waakye, kelewele, jollof, grilled tilapia, plenty that is vegetarian and a tea tent that never shuts. Nothing on site costs more than GHS 60.
Can I perform or share something?
Yes. There is an open circle each afternoon and a sign-up sheet at the info tent from noon. Bring an instrument, a poem or a story — the only rule is that you finish inside eight minutes, because forty other people are waiting.
Can I bring children?
Under-12s come in free with an adult and there is a shaded corner with mats, drums and someone watching it all afternoon. After nine the volume on the main field is not really for small ears, and most families head off around then.
The practical bits
Getting there, getting back, staying warm
The questions people ask on the phone rather than on a website — collected here so that you do not have to ring.
How do I actually get up there?
Shuttles run from Madina and from Kwame Nkrumah Circle from midday, every forty minutes, and they are included in every ticket. Driving is fine but the car park is four hundred metres below the field and fills by six. The Aburi road on a Friday afternoon is the slowest hour of your weekend — leave earlier than you think.
And getting back to Accra at one in the morning?
The last shuttle leaves an hour after the final set, both directions, and it waits. In six editions we have never left anybody on that hill. If you miss it, the info tent has a list of drivers and will not let you walk.
What should I bring?
A cloth or a mat to sit on, something with sleeves for after ten — the ridge genuinely gets cold in January, which nobody believes until the second night — and cash, because the network on the hill is unreliable and half the vendors would rather not rely on it either.
What happens if it rains?
January on the ridge is harmattan and it very rarely does. If it does, the marketplace row and the quiet tent are covered, the rig is built to keep running, and nothing is cancelled or refunded for weather. In 2023 it rained for forty minutes on the Saturday and the field did not empty.
Is there really a no-phones rule at the front?
Not a rule and nobody will stop you. There is a marked strip at the front of the field where people have agreed to keep them down, it is about six metres deep, and it is the best place to stand.
I have lost something / found something.
The info tent holds everything for thirty days and then gives it to the Aburi district office. Message us with a description rather than a photograph — we get a lot of very similar black jackets.
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Date
Fri–Sun, 15–17 January 2027
Gates
Daily from 2pm, music until late
Where
The old nursery, Aburi Ridge
Entry
GHS 180 a night · GHS 420 full pass
Two thousand tickets, and they have gone before Christmas every year since 2022. Nothing is sold on the gate.
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