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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. “More than 400 years ago one race was subjected to one of the worst atrocities to ever happen on the ...

ELMINA, Ghana (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary on Sunday with a sombre ceremony recalling the suffering of their ancestors ...

Slavery heritage and the call to home : diasporan travel to Ghana -- The development of Ghana's heritage tourism -- Culture brokers at the front lines : tour guides at Cape Coast and Elmina castles ...