BENIN, TOGO, GHANA AND THE GAMBIA
May 5th 2010 Western Africa is not on the well-worn tourist route. All four ports are new to us. Fortunately we have several guest lecturers on board who have given us some background on these small countries hanging on the Atlantic edge of Africa. They were used as way stations during the era of slavery. They were all colonial outposts and only became independent in the past fifty years. As third world c
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