Cape Coast, the capital city of the Central Region of Ghana.  Formerly called Cabo-Corso, it has lots of forts and castles. The most prominent and visited one is the Cape Coast Castle.

The structure, which stands on the shores of the  Atlantic Ocean, was a trading post for timber, gold, and slaves. The Danes had it in the 1500s, the Swedish took over in 1653. In fact, it's had changing administrative powers for a long time. The British were also beneficiaries of this edifice. 

As a booming industry, we've got the auctioning of slaves and barter trading happening in the conference rooms. After thorough medical checkups, the enslaved Africans, who are usually prisoners of wars and raids, are kept in dungeons. where they’re not fed often and have little to drink. Dungeons with no lighting but a little window to provide ventilation for thousands kept underground.

After a few weeks, they exit this fortress through the DOOR OF NO RETURN before they’re shipped to the Americas to work on the farms of their slave masters.

Today, in place of the door of no return, we have the DOOR OF RETURN. Aside from being a historic site to remember the gallant Africans who died during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, it has additional significance that’s to amplify the call on Africans in the diaspora to connect to their roots.

Many Africans living in the diaspora troop in daily to visit the Cape Coast Castle . For some, it's a traumatic experience to walk down the corridors and cast their minds back to all that happened. We say never again to Slave Trade.