Musician, MzVee was emotional after taking a tour of Fort Prinzenstein, located in her hometown, Keta, in the Volta Region of Ghana. The fort is the last of 32 to end the slave trade during the period ...
This Fort was among the four major Danish structures in Ghana, built in the commercial capital of the 36 Anlo towns, Keta in 1784 AD. SURROUNDING ACCOUNTS When the Portuguese, the first among the ...
The salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana’s Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved Africans before their journey across the Atlantic. Now only a shell remains – a ...
Fort Prinzenstein in Keta remains a hauntingly beautiful yet rapidly vanishing evidence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Built in 1784 by Danish traders, the fort was originally intended as a ...
Ruins of the sea-facing side of Fort Prinzenstein in Ghana. Without urgent action, it is predicted that the former slaveholding depot could be lost to sea erosion within decades. (Karen Attiah/The ...
Fort Prinzenstein being destroyed by coastal erosion in Keta. Ghana’s coastline is being consumed by nature and neglect as climate change, rising sea levels and unchecked human activity eat away at ...
The salty wind blows across the ruins of Ghana's Fort Prinzenstein, where thick walls once held thousands of enslaved Africans before their journey across the Atlantic. - Modern economy at risk - ...