Forty years after Prince Henry's expeditions first acquired gold dust and twenty-one years after the Prince's death, Portugal began constructing a trading outpost on Africa's Guinea coast, near a ...

Mayor-elect Eric Adams made an emotional visit Thursday morning to Elmina Castle, the first European slave-trading post in sub-Saharan Africa — located on the west coast of present-day Ghana. Adams, ...

Across Africa, from the north of the Sahara to the West African coast sit many relics of the continent's early interactions with Europe. In Ghana, two of the country's most famous spectacles, Elmina ...

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

ROCKFORD -- The Elmina Castle is located on the western coast of Ghana. It's a place with so much scenic beauty, but a dark history of enslavement. 13 WREX's Brittany Hardaway traveled to Africa and ...

Centuries after their ancestors were forced onto slave ships off the coast of West Africa, African Americans and others continue to trace their roots back to the continent to learn more about their ...

AFA copy 39088020045514 Purchased from the Warren M. Robbins Library Endowment. This is a brief introduction to the history of Elmina, its castle, the people, and their traditions. It outlines the ...

Today, we woke up bright and early to head to Cape Coast. This central region of Ghana is full of rich history and incredible attractions. Our faculty leaders notified us today would be an emotion- ...

By Laudia Anyorkor Nunoo, GNA Elmina (C/R), Jan. 06, GNA – At the forecourt of the historic Elmina Castle, where the Atlantic Ocean meets centuries of painful slave history and coconut trees sway ...

Centuries after their ancestors were forced onto slave ships off the coast of West Africa, African Americans and others continue to trace their... African Slave Descendents Trace History in Ghana ...