Thought this might be of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/travel/09ghana.html?_r=1&ref=travel
CAPE COAST and southern Ghana in NY Times--article link
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Thansk, very interesting. I was in Cape Coast and Elmina end of 2005. Good memories
Great article. Thanks. I've bookmarked it. I'll print it later.
Ghana was a great place. I was there in Dec 2003/Jan 2004 and Dec 2004/Jan 2005. I was up in Elmina on the 2004/2005 trip and standing in the cell of the female slaves was very intense. Then in one cell the guide slammed the iron door as we all stood inside. I could just imagine the intense fear the ancestors must have felt.
It was my 4th trip to Africa, but the most intense. On the first trip to Ghana when the plane touched down on the runway the night of my arrival, it brought tears to my eyes. It had been a very long trip having started in L.A. and having made a stop in the U.S. and then in Frankfurt and then in Nigeria and finally on to Ghana. Exhausting.
The other two African countries that I had traveled to in the early 80s were great, but did not produce the same type of emotions. Ghana to me was intensely African from a cultural viewpoint. And there's always been a cultural connection to Ghana here at home for many decades. Therefore I grew up hearing about Ghana from a young child.
Since the early 80s, I've traveled independently on all of my African trips and I'm female. Many of my friends have traveled to Ghana and also to Nigeria independently and since the 70s. One even stayed and studied an entire year at a university,in Nigeria, back in the mid 70s, and then went on to Ghana. When she returned there was great talk of Ghana and also of her experiences in Nigeria. Happy Travels!