Outside the slave castle in Cape Coast, originally established in 1555 by the Portuguese, a young boy tried to sell us bananas, but instead ended up socializing with us. This castle is a place of extremely dark tourism: all enslaved women inside were forced to bleed on the floor during their periods, women were lined up and picked by slaveowners for sex, men who rejected authority were chained to a section of concrete in the sun without food and water, and some people were sent into an enclosed chamber to die.

Cape Coast, Ghana. 2016.

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