A triptych of charming castles where Nelson Mandela once stayed in Knysna, South Africa, have sold for ZAR28.5 million (US$2.16 million), the auctioneers announced on Friday. The castles are located ...

A Scottish castle once shaped by a family dispute is about to begin another chapter, this time under the ownership of an American couple with a history of bringing old attractions back to life.

AFRICA’S SLAVE CASTLES — Beautiful But Tragic Reminders of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor “They were the last place a slave would ‘reside’ before going through ...

For nearly 140 years, this tiny scrap of an island on West Africa's Atlantic coast was the point of no return for hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who were stolen from their homes and ...

Scores of African Americans made a pilgrimage to Ghana last year to mark the 400th anniversary of the start of the transatlantic slave trade that brought Africans to these shores. By some reports, the ...

Extracted from: Public archaeology (London) 3 (4) 2004, pages 195-204. Illustrations. Explores the contradictory positions of African Americans and Ghanaians vis-a-vis the restoration of Elmina Castle ...

Paper presented at the Fifth World Archaeological Congress in Washington, DC, June 21-26, 2003. The Ghanaian authorities planned to restore Cape Coast and Elmina Castles as memorials to the ...