{"id":2972,"date":"2021-01-11T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africablooming.com\/surf-ghana-kick-push-and-skate-in-accra\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:54:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T10:54:28","slug":"surf-ghana-kick-push-and-skate-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africablooming.com\/en\/surf-ghana-kick-push-and-skate-in-accra\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf Ghana | Kick, push and skate in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the heart of Accra, skaters have their lair. In 2016, Surf Ghana is born, a surf, skateboard and art collective, offering a space for meeting and sharing around the culture of skateboarding to the young people of the Ghanaian capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Surf Ghana <\/em><\/a>invites both young and adults to learn how to skate, gives visibility and connects confirmed skaters. It also provides equipment and offers a safe space where to meet, work, get inspired or chill.\r\nThrough skateboarding, the collective wants to transmit not only the practice of a passion, but also to allow young people to discover themselves, to blossom, to gain self-confidence, to be united, to progress, to dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Surf Ghana Crew<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sandy Alibo<\/em>, founder of Surf Ghana<\/em>, is not only motivated and full of ambition. The collective is growing and multiplying projects.\r\nIn 2018, Surf Ghana<\/em> collaborates with the renowned collective Skate Nation Ghana<\/a><\/em> for a national tour.\r\nOne year later, facing the lack of girls in the collective, Sandy<\/em> and photographer Kuukua Eshun<\/em> set up the Skate Gal Club<\/a><\/em>. Every 2 months, an event allows young women to talk about everything and enjoy together thanks to skateboarding but also yoga and other workshops. The two friends thus create a space of freedom and sisterhood where each one can be fully herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skate Gal Club – Accra, Ghana<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Finally in 2020, it is time for the next step. Surf Ghana calls for reinforcements to build the first skatepark in Accra! In collaboration with the Limbo Accra <\/a><\/em> studio and the support of brands such as Vans<\/em>, Off-White<\/em> or Daily Paper<\/em>, the Freedom Skatepark<\/a><\/em> project is on the way and promising. Much more than a skateboarding space, the idea is to create a space of entertainment and fulfillment for a generation. In a bustling capital where skateboarding is a risky practice in the city this space will offer a safe area for all ages and levels!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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