D UNDERBELLY has entered Ghana!

Background info on Ghana:  

• First sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence
• Democracy with full and fair elections
• 2007 is Ghana’s Golden Jubilee celebration of fifty years of independence
• Well endowed with natural resources, Ghana has twice the per capita output of the poorer countries in West Africa 
• The domestic economy revolves around subsistence agriculture, which accounts for 50% of GDP and employs 85% of the work force, mainly small landholders

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Image from a typical EWE village. 

 

 The courtyard of a coastal Ghana holding prison or “slave castle”, built in 1480 for Africans awaiting transport to the Americas.

All slaves brought to a castle were put into a windowless dungeon down a hole underground.  The only way in or out was through this trap door and hole.   The pit is pitch dark when the trap door is closed.

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~ by Baraka de Soleil on July 21, 2007.