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Cape Coast

Cape Coast Castle
First weekend at the coast

May 12th 2009
After our first week in the hospital.. we jumped ship Friday afternoon and took a bus to Cape Coast. The beach itself left something to be desired (areas looked more like a garbage heap than a beach) but we ate great (cheap!) seafood and met some lovely traveling Australians. Tour of the Cape Coast Castle was eye-opening... it was the largest slave-trading center in West Africa. I don't think t ... read more
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Ghanaian Flag Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. A long series of coups resulted in the suspension of the ... ... read more
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