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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...