Cape Coast CastleLegend A white fort on the Ghanaian shore with dungeons cut into the rock underneath it. The Portuguese put a trading post called Cabo Corso here in 1555, the Swedish Africa Company built a timber fort in 1653 and named it Carolusborg,... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Golden Stool of the AsanteLegend The Sika Dwa Kofi, the Golden Stool, is said to have been brought down from the sky by the priest Okomfo Anokye around 1700 to hold the soul of the Asante nation. It is never sat upon and never allowed to touch the ground. In... Open it on the map · Read the story
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