"The church, baptistry, basilicas, public buildings, streets, monasteries, houses and workshops in this early Christian holy city were built over the tomb of the martyr ...
The Accra Zoo was set up by the first President of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, as a private menagerie in the early 1960s and was opened to the public after his overthrow in 1966. The zoo houses many birds and animals endemic to Eastern Africa.