Gorée Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Site off Senegal's coast, stands as a powerful memorial to the transatlantic slave trade while balancing its role as a living community. The island's main ...

Dakar, Senegal — Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and ...

An aerial drone photo taken on March 23, 2025 shows the House of Slave on Goree Island in Senegal. Goree Island lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. Ruled in succession by the Portuguese ...

Massar Mbodj lives in a bunker under a cannon on Gorée island, off the coast of Senegal, which was a centre for slave trading for more than 300 years. Video journalists: Arwa Barkallah and Raissa ...

The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...

The international campaign for the safeguarding of the Island of Gorée has as its objective the rehabilitation of the heritage and the socio-economic revitalization of the Island, the principal ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

The Université des Mutants, installed in a building restored by Senegal, is currently being used as a conference ... An important feature of the island, the 'Western Battery', received emergency ...