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Ghana is at the center of the world’s spotlight again after news broke, confirming that the story of slavery on the continent of Africa, specifically begun in Ghana. Working together with a team, an archaeologist, Prof. Christopher DeCorse, has led a team of archaeologists in uncovering the exact location of …

On 29 October 1810, Saartjie “Sara” Baartman, a nineteen-year-old Khoisan lady marked an agreement to be taken from Cape Town to London to be displayed for diversion purposes. However she was ignorant, history supposedly guarantees she marked the agreement with an English boat specialist named William Dunlop who was a …

The Garifuna people, descendants of Carib, Arawak and West Africa have always fought for their place, cultural identity and heritage since the 1800s against colonial rule and discrimination. They fought to survive when the slave ship transporting them got wrecked at sea. When they settled at St. Vincent in the …

One of the many slaves to have left the shores of Ghana did so in the year 1730. At age four, the story of his life began, not on a good note, but little did he know it will lead to something great. Anton Wilhelm Amo was his name, born …