Where enslaved Africans were once forced through the Point of No Return to unknown lands, their descendants are now returning ...

A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

Her commitment to cultural expression and social change deepened upon returning to Africa, where she launched her curatorial career by coordinating cultural programs at the Gorée Institute in ...

In 2023, I visited the Doorway of No Return at the House of Slaves on Gorée Island in Senegal, where expert tour guides gave detailed lectures about the deprivation experienced by humans held in ...

Paul Modjadji’s 10-country African tour is chronicled in an enthralling new fourteen-part travelogue, “Breaking Down Borders Africa” on SABC 1. Countries featured include Zambia, Namibia ...

(Ecofin Agency) - Located about 3 km (1.8 miles) off the coast of Dakar, Senegal’s capital, Gorée Island is one of the most emblematic historical sites in West Africa. Despite its small size—only 28 ...

The Lagos State Government has kicked off the construction of the “Door of Return Tower” in Badagry—a powerful symbol of ...

While on a pastoral visit to Senegal in 1992, he made a pilgrimage to Gorée and visited what he called a “house of slaves,” this “African sanctuary of black pain.” At that place ...

The Osun-Oshogbo Sacred Grove, located in the city of Oshogbo in southwestern Nigeria, holds significant cultural and religious meaning for the Yoruba people. Stretching along the banks of the Osun ...