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African Spiritual Retreats & Events: An In-Depth Review for Ayahuasca Retreats near Kasoa, Ghana

African Spiritual Retreats & Events (also “African Spiritual Practices”) is a retreat run by Ghanaian-British psychedelic guide Akua Ofosuhene at Langma Beach House on the coast near Kasoa, Ghana, combining three ayahuasca ceremonies brewed from plants it says are grown in Ghana with Ghanaian ancestral rituals in seven and ten-day retreats for up to ten guests from £1,200, per its Retreat Guru program page. It is the only ayahuasca retreat Retreat Guru lists in Ghana. Against that, it has no reviews, its facilitators claim no ayahuasca training, no screening, contraindications, medical staff or emergency plan are published, the medicine fee is not disclosed, and supplying controlled drugs in Ghana carries a ten-year minimum sentence.

🎯 At a Glance

• Locations: Langma Beach House on Langma beach, Kokrobitey Road, south of Kasoa on the border of Ghana’s Central and Greater Accra regions, with overflow rooms at the nearby Lloyds Beach Resort; Kotoka airport in Accra is about 38 km away.
• Approach: Three group ayahuasca ceremonies with one-to-one intention and integration sessions, plus sound healing, herbal baths, clay cleanses, libation and ancestral rites, self-divination, yoga, Qi Gong and ecstatic dance.
• Suitable For: Adults drawn to African spiritual practice who can screen themselves and accept the legal risk. Not suitable for people taking antidepressants or with heart or psychiatric conditions.
• Costs: £1,200 to £2,200 per person for seven days depending on room, and $2,700 to $3,600 for ten days, with a £175 deposit; prices also appear in dollars and cedis, with mismatched figures and typos. Retreat Guru says the ayahuasca is not included in its payment, and the medicine fee is not stated. The deposit is listed as refundable until a day before; airport pickup is included.
• Overall Assessment: A distinctive pairing of ayahuasca and Ghanaian ritual with small groups, offset by an inexperienced ayahuasca team, no published medical safeguards, an undisclosed medicine fee, no track record and serious legal exposure. Directory evaluation: D+.

💬 What Guests Are Saying

The retreat has no reviews on its Retreat Guru page, and none were found on Google, Tripadvisor or other directories, so there is no independent account of a retreat. If you have attended, we encourage you to share your experience through our submission form.

🚩 Incident Report

We searched review platforms and English-language news for reports involving the retreat, Akua Ofosuhene, Yaw Fosu, TiaSunlight and Dodzi Agbenafa.

• Deaths and serious injuries: None found.
• Sexual misconduct: No allegations found.
• Theft and fraud: None found.
• Legal action: None found.

One co-facilitator uses a single spiritual name, which limits this search.

If you have experienced or witnessed an incident with this center, please report it confidentially.

🔍 Critical Notes

Who runs it. Akua Ofosuhene, a former London dressmaker who works with the Breaking Convention psychedelic conference, per its performer page, leads the ceremonies and says her team brews the ayahuasca from caapi vine and chacruna grown in Ghana. She announced her first ayahuasca retreat in Ghana for February 2025, per Glocal Citizens. In a 2021 interview she described her own healing with kambo and iboga and said she had given her teenage son MDMA and then mushrooms, per Huck. She and co-facilitator Yaw Fosu, a “quantum energy healer”, claim a family healing line in Ghana going back at least 500 years, per Yaw Fosu’s profile (unverified); TiaSunlight, a cacao and sound practitioner, also co-facilitates. No Amazonian lineage, ayahuasca apprenticeship or company is stated.

Screening and medical support. No medical questionnaire, contraindication list, medical staff or emergency protocol appears on any listing, and no testing or dosing information is given for the locally made brew. The nearest public facility, Kasoa Polyclinic, has no surgical theatre and an overcrowded accident ward, per the Ghana News Agency; major hospitals are in Accra.

Listings. The house is described as having both four and seven bedrooms, the ten-day program says “7 days in Ghana”, a £1,500 headline price matches no room, and Retreat Guru shows a pool, sauna and meat menus that the vegan, beach-house text does not support.

Status. Operating, with retreats from 10 November 2026 through March 2027.

Legal context. Ghana’s Narcotics Control Commission Act, 2020 replaced prison with fines for personal possession, per IDPC, but supply carries a mandatory minimum of ten years, per Myjoyonline. Whether DMT or the ayahuasca plants are scheduled in Ghana is not confirmed, and no enforcement against retreats was found.

🆘 Screening & Mental Health Risks

A brew made locally by a new team, with no published screening or testing, leaves guests to judge their own risk. ICEERS notes that ayahuasca’s MAOI component makes it dangerous with SSRIs and other serotonergic drugs and that it is contraindicated for people prone to psychosis. Never stop a psychiatric medication to qualify for a ceremony without your prescriber’s guidance.

🧪 Brew Substance

Ayahuasca brewed by Akua Ofosuhene’s team from caapi vine and chacruna it says are grown in Ghana (unverified). Ayahuasca combines the Banisteriopsis caapi vine with a DMT-containing leaf such as chacruna, as Erowid explains.

📍 Location, Setting & Style

• Setting: A hot, humid Gulf of Guinea beach a short walk from a local town, with outings to rivers and a waterfall.
• Rooms: Sea-view and standard rooms with ceiling fans and air conditioning on request; overflow guests stay at a nearby resort with a pool.
• Style: Ayahuasca blended with Ghanaian ancestral ritual and modern wellness practices.

Practical guidance: Fly to Accra (ACC); airport pickup is included, and the retreat provides a visa invitation letter.

Should You Book?

Only with caution. Ask in writing who trained the facilitators in ayahuasca and how the brew is made and tested, the medicine fee, the screening questions and contraindication list, who is trained in first aid, the emergency plan and nearest hospital with an emergency department, and the legal entity you are paying. Read our guide to verifying retreat facilitators.

The Team & Story

Akua Ofosuhene says she returned to Ghana to combine psychedelic healing with her family’s spiritual heritage, and calls the program the world’s only retreat joining African spiritual practice with plant medicine (unverified). We did not independently verify anyone’s training.

Prep & Integration Tips

Before you go: Disclose every medication and condition in writing, plan any change with your own doctor, and buy insurance that covers evacuation. After you return: Use the integration sessions offered and arrange support from a qualified therapist at home. Our guide on how to research ayahuasca incidents can help you check any center.

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Last reviewed November 2026.

This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified medical professional.