During that time, Mbodji detailed a history that's common across West Africa: European colonists came to African countries along the coast, built settlements, captured people from those lands ...

The Senegalese people called it Ber. The Portuguese renamed it Ila de Palma. The name was changed to Good Reed by the Dutch and the French called the island Goree - meaning good harbour. But the name ...

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 ...

was sharpened during a 1977 summer program in West Africa. A sojourn out to Goree Island, an embarkation site for the slave trade for centuries, put her career on an arc that came full circle to ...

named after Senegal's Goree Islands off the coast of Africa. When fire destroyed the buildings in 1802, merchants rebuilt the warehouses in 1811, for trade with Africa continued after Parliament ...