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Black Americans reconnect with ancestral history in Ghana, where slaves left Africa
Actor Boris Kodjoe has made it a mission to bring the Black diaspora back to Africa. Tourism has boomed in Ghana recently, where people visit former slave trade sites, like the “Door of No Return.”ABC News
At Cape Coast Castle on the shores of the Ghanaian city, a sordid history belies its beauty.
The castle overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, a former slave-trade outpost, is home to the so-called "Door of No Return," through which millions of Africans were forced onto slave ships bound for the United States.