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 ...

First discovered in the fifteenth century by Portuguese seamen, the litle volcanic island of Gorée, just off the African coast, gained historical significance as an important and well-fortified ...

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 ...

Gorée Island, a small island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, is believed to have been a 'key stop for thousands and thousands of slaves on their brutal journey to the Americas' throughout the ...

At Gorée, an island just off the Senegalese coast and symbol of the slave trade, his memorable concert marked the end of this quest and the start of a new challenge: making today's generation ...

The Slave House, responsibility for which has been assumed by the foundation Gorée/Fraternité ... An important feature of the island, the 'Western Battery', received emergency assistance amounting to ...

An intervention of the old Portuguese colonial system through the "shaking" or exorcism of the Maison des Esclaves (House of Slaves) on Gorée Island. Presented as a diptych with "O Sacudimento da ...