The purpose of Elmina Castle, as well as the future outposts, was to give support to captains by providing their vessels with a secure harbor. The outposts were heavily armed against assault from ...

Most tourists would not necessarily think about visiting castles when travelling to Africa. Castles are normally associated with Europe, and they are architectural monuments from the glorious ...

The Dutch had been involved with the African slave trade for some time, having seized Portugal's Elmina Castle along the West African coast about two decades earlier. Soon after gaining control of ...

Elmina Castle was built on the coast of what is now Ghana as a fortified trading post by Portuguese traders in 1482. It was the first trading post in that region of Africa. Initially, European ...

Justin Zullo’s path to Northwestern started at Elmina Castle, the former slave dungeon on the southern tip of Ghana. Zullo, then a senior at Brandeis, had traveled to the West African nation for a ...

One castle that has become a dark tourism hotspot is Ghana's St George's Castle, also known as Elmina Castle. Now a UNESCO World Heritage site, it was originally constructed as a trading post by ...