Whatever you do, don’t forget your passport.
Getting connected in Accra is relatively easy: you can either buy a charge card and add credit or stop by a café that has wifi.
To buy a charge card, bring your passport and phone to an authorized dealer, such as Airtel or MTN, the two largest. You’ll get a Ghanaian phone number and decide on how much mobile data you’d like to buy. It costs around 10 GHC (about $2.25 USD) to get the charge card with a phone number and 5 GHC (about $1) goes a long way for mobile data. The whole process takes just a few minutes.
After you are on the network, you can add credit by buying a scratch-off card at any number of vendors around Accra. These little cards start at 2 GHC (50 cents) which can last for about a week, depending on how much data you use and how many phone calls you make. I typically spend 5 GHC a week on data charges.
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