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Looking over the balcony  
   

Looking over the balcony

The governor would look over his balcony into the female slave yard and pick out female slaves to be sent to his room and raped. Notice that there is a cannonball in the yard. If female slaves were disobedient they were made to carry the cannonball.
The Slave Trade

July 18th 2006
I’ve been trying to write this travel blog for over a week...actually longer. I wrote the first half and couldn’t finish. I came back to it days later, and still couldn’t get my thoughts together. I finally finished tonight. The thoughts started coming the minute I set foot in Pikworo Slave Camp. Unfortunately, the ability to express the thoughts and feelings has been a bit more difficu ... read more
Africa » Ghana

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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