The Soninke people also sold slaves, salt and copper in exchange ... out of commercial Ghana and new trade routes were opening up further east. Ghana then became the target of attacks by the ...

Cape Coast Castle in Ghana was a slave fortress that played a large ... this altered the geography of trade routes operating in Africa. These permanent bases – often operating for over a hundred ...

Standing as one of many relics of the slave trade visible in the Upper West Region is the Gbollu ... to the present day Upper East and even parts of the Northern Region of Ghana fell under his sword.