During a recent Voice visit to Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, historians and tour guides urge Britain to stop whitewashing its ...

—Words from a plaque at the Cape Coast Slave Castle in Ghana I didn’t know if my blood was there. Before I went, before walking through those creaky, wooden doors at the Cape Coast Castle on the ...

Paper presented at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress in Washington, DC, June 21-26, 2003. The Ghanaian authorities planned to restore Cape Coast and Elmina Castles as memorials to the ...

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that Ghana will soon submit a motion to the United Nations seeking to declare slavery and the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity .

Extracted from: Public archaeology (London) 3 (4) 2004, pages 195-204. Illustrations. Explores the contradictory positions of African Americans and Ghanaians vis-a-vis the restoration of Elmina Castle ...

CAPE COAST, Ghana (Reuters) - U.S. First Lady Melania Trump laid a wreath at a 17th-century slave fortress in Ghana on Wednesday, vowing never to forget where Africans were held before being shipped ...

As my road trip through Ghana continued, I explored Elmina, the largest fishing town in the country. I visited the famous fish market, enjoyed waakye, and explored Elmina Castle. Elmina is the first ...

—Words from a plaque at the Cape Coast Slave Castle in Ghana I didn’t know if my blood was there. Before I went, before walking through those creaky, wooden doors at the Cape Coast Castle on the ...