Walking into Elmina Castle I felt a sense of aggression. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. I visited the castle as a tourist looking ...

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 ...

Between the early 16th century and the middle of 19th century, the wicked trade in humans was booming. Millions of Africans had their freedom taken from them. They were forcefully captured, held under ...

Elmina Castle stands as a haunting reminder of a dark chapter in human history. This impressive appearance, with its fortress-like architecture, witnessed the horrors of the foreign slave trade for ...

Accra, Jan. 3, GNA - In front of the Elmina Castle today lies a compass allegedly used by Christopher Columbus to discover America. Columbus, who visited Elimna on three occasions, was accompanied by ...

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 ...

Some local tourists have called for renewed interest and deeper engagement by Ghanaians with the Elmina Castle and surrounding heritage sites, saying such efforts would strengthen national history, ...

Elmina Castle built by the Portuguese in 1482 as São Jorge da Mina in the Central Region, is in ruins as a result of lack of maintenance. The Castle, also known simply as Mina or Feitoria da Mina was ...

Elmina is one of the most important tourist sites in West Africa. Wikimedia Commons Ghana has been rated fourth among 19 interesting tourism destinations around the world. The country has the ability ...

Between the early 16th century and the middle of 19th century, the wicked trade in humans was booming. Millions of Africans had their freedom taken from them. They were forcefully captured, held under ...