Saint George's Castle Elmina

... same conversation by rote in French.   At length, we arrived at the castle (such a good fairytale line!) Saint George's castle, to be precise, the oldest extant European structure in sub-Saharan Africa. Construction was begun by the Portuguese in ...

... harbors.  We toured two of the old trading forts (or castles, as they are also known) on Ghana's coast, Saint George's Castle in Elmina and Cape Coast Castle, the two places where it is believed more African passed through to slavery in Europe and ...