Busua

Busua is a beach resort and fishing village in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region of Ghana, about 30 kilometres west of the regional capital Sekondi-Takoradi on the Gulf of Guinea. Its people speak Ahanta, a dialect of Akan, and the fishery is known for blue marlin and tuna. Until the 1960s it was a seaside resort for wealthy locals from Sekondi-Takoradi, and European tourists began to visit in the 1970s and 1980s, although the town had neither electricity nor running water until the late 1990s. A palm disease in the early 1990s killed all of its coconut trees, leaving a long sandy beach on a coastline free of dangerous currents. The town now has restaurants, cottages and bungalows, and the fishing village of Dixcove can be reached on foot in about 25 minutes.