Ada Foah

Ada Foah is a town on the southeast coast of Ghana, where the Volta River meets the Atlantic Ocean.

[5] As rising water levels continues to jeopardise the coast and local communities, construction of the sea defence wall hope to stop this progress.

There are hardly any traces of physical structures such as forts, factories and shops remaining, since large parts of the town have been eroded and washed into the sea.

Also, the construction of the hydroelectric dam, in Akosombo, completed in 1965, dried up the Volta River and ships could no longer pass.

With the river and the ocean, Ada Foah is famous for water sports like swimming, sailing, fishing and boat cruises.

[10][11] Although the old trading fort, built by Danish traders in the 18th century, is already halfway eroded and washed into the ocean, the remains can still be visited.

Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo's installation, Nkyinkyim, which consists of more than 1,300 cement effigies, is embedded in a field in Nuhalenya Ada, a town outside Accra.

[13] Ada Foah is the secondary venue of the annual Asafotufiami Festival that takes place during the first week of August.

[citation needed] There is a beach soccer tournament on the first weekend of each month at the seaside near the estuary, where teams from different communities in the district compete against each other.

Beach in Ada Foah
Remains of Fort Kongenstein
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