View west from Elmina Castle. Photograph by Manu Herbstein, 2001

"She looked out. Cooking fires twinkled dimly in the town. Flickering shadows played on the mud walls. Dark figures went about their business. A woman sang. Another shouted an admonition to a child. Indistinct conversations floated up over the roar of the surf. All over the land black people were preparing and eating their evening meals in similar manner" (Ama). This is the site of Edina, razed to the ground by the British in 1872"

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