Brazil House

Brazil House sits on Brazil Lane in James Town, recognizable by its two-story colonial architecture and a balcony facing the sea. The building marks a history of the Tabom people, a community of formerly enslaved Africans who gained their freedom in Brazil and sailed back to their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century. Upon arriving in Accra around eighteen thirty-six, these returnees primarily spoke Portuguese, often greeting one another with the phrase “Tá bom,” or “it is okay,” a habit that led the local Ga people to name their new neighbors the Tabom.