Osu Night market gets facelift tomorrow
A healthy mix of live band music, soul food and cool people will bring the Osu Night Market alive tomorrow, Friday, August 28.
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The street lying in front of the market will be transformed into an urban entertainment hub with a dance area, flooded with blue and white lights and the road covered with a long strip of artificial grass, and set up with rows of dining tables and chairs.
What started last May as an urban intervention programme to help rejuvenate nightlife in Accra, and bring some deserving economy to the Osu night market, a local street vending community, is gradually turning into an anticipated periodic event.
At the last event, organised by the Ghana Design Network and “friends of the Osu Night Market, which took place during the Republic Day weekend, legendary highlife icon, Pat Thomas, headlined a line-up of performers and turned diners into revelers keeping them glued to the dance floor with old reminiscent tunes.
It is a Homowo Special tomorrow and at 7pm, patrons will have the opportunity to enjoy some of Ghana's local produce provided by the very popular Atwei, whose grilled fish and pepper is just as legendary as her ‘komi’ (Ga kenkey) which she, as well as all the other vendors in the market who sell kenkey there, serve with an assortment of pepper sauces and grilled and fried seafood, and pork!
The Osu Night Market, which offers both local residents and visitors an alternative, more traditional style of eating out could well become a tourist hub if plans to rejuvenate the area, making it more dining friendly is realised.
“I believe development starts with supporting our local vendors through creative initiatives. Events such as the “Osu Night Market” are an unconventional and extraordinary way to directly invest and make a small impact on the local economy” says event organiser, Joe Osae Addo, of the Ghana Design Network.
He said while the intervention is temporary, the hope is that creative events like the “Osu Night Market” will eventually become permanent and transform the neighbourhood into an attractive and popular cultural space.
