ITS CHAOTIC CHARM IS INTOXICATING

It was loud, chaotic, intoxicating: Ghana at its most tactile and authentic.

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But nothing felt more real than our visit to Cape Coast Castle.

Inside the silent dungeons, history closed in from every side. No light or airflow. Just thick stone walls and the memory of thousands of slaves held captive before being trafficked as human cargo.

Our guide Kojo spoke with the gravity of someone who had told this story too many times, yet aware it must never stop being told.

It was the way people let us in, embracing us into their world

"It cannot be repeated," he said simply, standing by the plaque that now marks the “Door of No Return” -once the last threshold before Africans were forced onto ships in the dark days of the transatlantic slave trade.