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 ...

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, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans blamed the modern-day problems of their continent 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 ...

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 Castle was the first European slave-trading post in all of sub-Saharan Africa. Built by Portuguese traders in the late 1400s, it was taken over by the Dutch and then the British.

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(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 ...