Mayor-elect Eric Adams made an emotional visit Thursday morning to Elmina Castle, the first European slave-trading post in sub-Saharan Africa — located on the west coast of present-day Ghana. Adams, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between the early 16th century and the middle of 19th century, the wicked trade in humans was booming. Millions of Africans had their freedom taken from them. They were forcefully captured, held under ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prince Tete, a local, leans against a fence of a mass grave at the Assin Praso heritage site, Ghana. (Photo: Siphiwe ...

For many thousands, it was the last glimpse of Africa. Through a door, made narrow so that they would have to walk through in single file, Africans trudged out of the darkness of Ghana’s Elmina Castle ...

Centuries after their ancestors were forced onto slave ships off the coast of West Africa, African Americans and others continue to trace their... African Slave Descendents Trace History in Ghana ...

When I was 12 or 13 and living in Frankfurt, Germany, my parents loaded my siblings and me into the car and we drove about four hours south and east to a small-ish town in the Bavarian region that was ...