The Night Accra Wouldn’t Let Me Leave Cypher Zone, Labone

There’s a version of Accra that only reveals itself when you stop trying to see the city and just let it find you. I had a whole plan for that evening, dinner, maybe a walk around Labone, an early night. Then someone mentioned Cypher Zone was inside Palace Mall and that was the plan done with.
Cypher Zone doesn’t feel like it should exist in the middle of a mall. But there it is bowling lanes, laser tag rooms, a mini golf course, virtual racing simulators, arcade cabinets, the whole thing. The kind of place where you walk in for twenty minutes and resurface two hours later slightly bewildered, slightly sweaty and completely unbothered about it. Accra does this to you. The city has a generosity to it, it keeps offering you more evening than you planned for.




