Ghana has opened its first skate park in the heart of the capital, Accra, in honour of the late US fashion icon Virgil Abloh, who was overseeing the project before he passed away in late November.

Unveiling the park, organisers paid tribute to the American designer of Ghanaian origin with musical performances by local artists and skate sessions by both professionals and amateurs.

“Abloh was here,” is conspicuously written on a fence wall at the park, among the list of personalities who contributed to fund the Freedom Skatepark.

Artistic director for Louis Vuitton men’s collections, Abloh, whose family was from Ghana, died last month of cancer aged 41, after becoming the first major black designer recognised in the industry.

Abloh expanded from Chicago’s skate and DJ culture to the heights of the fashion world, first with his own red-hot label Off-White, and then into the luxury industry in Paris.