The Upper East Region is preparing fervently to host the 2025 edition of the PANAFEST/Emancipation Day celebration, with the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) leading the charge to ensure a successful and ...

Richmond is slowly coming to terms with its past as a major slave-trading market. The Richmond Slave Trail, a self-guided walking tour of 17 sites, chronicles the trade of enslaved ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This ...

This Saturday (July 5), the Ashé Cultural Arts Center will lead a procession in remembrance of the horrors of the slave trade ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...

CONQUEROR OF THE SEAS FERDINAND MAGELLANThe voyages of Columbus inspired boldness in other great explorers to discover new unhampered trade routes to the Spice Islands of the EastWhen Vasco Da Gama ro ...

Alhassan Dantata is the father of the late Aminu Dantata and the founder of the Dantata business dynasty. He is also the great-grandfather of Aliko Dangote.The late Alhassan was a philanthropist and ...

Other lucky slaves, aboard cargo ships that were intercepted by the British Navy, found themselves relocated to a freed slave settlement, christened Frere Town. This area in port city of Mombasa was ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of ...