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Elmina is mostly known for the part it played in slavery. Home to a castle that served as a slave trade point: but prior to the arrival of the Portuguese, the town existed. The story of this small one has [...] Read more

Take a close look at the coast of Ghana, and you will find myriad ancient castles and forts. Marking the beginning of the slaves’ perilous journey during the era of the slave trade, these fortresses were the last memory slaves [...] Read more

After the Fantes migrated from present day Tachiman to Ɔman Kɛsi mu , Mankessim, led by Obrumankoma, Ɔdapagyan and Ɔson, the Fantes quickly organized themselves into military groups, or companies, called Asafo, to defend themselves from non-Akan groups in the [...] Read more

ANSAH SESSARAKOO was born in Annamaboe in 1736. Annamaboe is the original name of the town we now know as Anomabo. It was the then largest slave-trading port on the across the globe. His father was John Correntee (what other [...] Read more

The palm wine tapper; the originator of Fantenglish and an architect of Ghana’s independence.  For his hard work, undying dedication to his Goldcoast, now Ghana ?? and panache to build the foundation several years before gaining independence, it is strikingly [...] Read more

The Fantse were originally part of the great Ghana kingdom when it extended as far as to Bono-Manso in the present Brong ahafo region. The people seceded from the union and moved further south  from (Bono- Manso (Krako) present day [...] Read more