Driven by a Dream: The Vision Behind the Despite Auto Museum

A note from the team, in honour of our founder’s lifelong journey

This museum is not just about cars.

It began as a quiet passion—one man’s personal love for excellence, design, and engineering. Long before any building was drawn, before any Ferrari or Bugatti crossed Ghanaian soil, Dr. Osei Kwame Despite was simply a young man who admired beauty in motion.

Like many of us, he grew up in a Ghana that didn’t yet offer spaces like this. But he held onto that childhood spark. Over the years, as he built one of Ghana’s most respected entrepreneurial legacies, his appreciation for cars never left him. Instead, it grew. With that, he created one of the most enviable car collections in Africa. And with time, this passion grew into something too meaningful to keep private.

That’s where this story really begins.