The Elmina Fort in the Central Region, built in 1660 by the Dutch during the slave trade is in ruins as a result of lack of maintenance. The Saint Fort Jago was built as military post to ward off ...

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 ...

History : castles and forts in history -- Architecture : nature, types, functions -- Inside the fort : life and organization -- Outside the fort : African-European relations and impact -- Geography : ...

I have had to suspend the concluding words of the third installment of my "Letter from Tehran" which should have appeared in these columns today; that's because I have just returned from Dakar, ...

Ghana held a ceremony on Sunday to mark the 200th anniversary at a white-washed former slave fort in Elmina, a port that dispatched hundreds of thousands of Africans to a life of subjugation in the ...

Accra — EImina is a small fishing town barely three hours' drive from Accra. The fort at Elmina, known as St George's Castle is the oldest in Ghana. Built in 1482 by the Portuguese, it is the oldest ...

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 ...

(Recasts with ceremony, adds Kufuor, Blair, Amos) By Orla Ryan ELMINA, Ghana, March 25 (Reuters) - Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans marked the anniversary on ...