The Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has weighed in on the ongoing exchange between Ghana’s Foreign ...

Ghana's Elmina Castle, one of several former slave forts along Ghana's Atlantic coast, is a hugely popular destination and place of pilgrimage for African-American tourists and visitors from other ...

Kwame Essien, assistant professor of history and Africana studies at Lehigh, was born and raised in Ghana, which has approximately 40 percent of the historic slave castles used during the ...

The Assin Manso Slave River. Located in central Ghana, Assin Manso is where captured Africans had their “last bath” in the river before being marched to coastal forts like Elmina and Cape Coast.

Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his uncle, remembering the man he loved but also a past that has haunted his family for generations. By Siphiwe Sibeko and Francis Korokoro ADIDWAN, Ghana, Aug ...

ASSIN MANSO, GHANA, Aug 20 (Reuters) - In a clearing at the turnoff to Assin Manso, a billboard depicts two African slaves in loincloths, their arms and legs in chains. Beside them are the words ...

St George’s Castle is one of the 30-odd “slave forts” concentrated along Ghana’s coast. These fortified trading posts were built between 1482 and 1786 by the numerous traders ...

Ghana’s Minister of Tourism, Arts, and Culture, Hon. Andrew Egyapa Mercer, remarked that the commissioning of the Salaga Slave Market and Heritage Site is more than a commemoration of the past ...

President Barack Obama also visited the slave port in Ghana in 2009. On his trip, Mr. Obama said that Africa needed to take greater responsibility for the corruption and tyranny in the region.

Nana Assenso stands at the grave of his uncle, remembering the man he loved but also a past that has haunted his family for generations. "Growing up, I was told the story of two of my ...

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 ...