Ghana

Images from a December 2011 trip to Ghana (West Africa) to pick up our daughter, Hannah, at the conclusion of her term abroad at the University of Ghana in Accra. We discovered that while there, Hannah learned to speak the local language (Twi), volunteered at an orphanage, and usually washed her clothes in buckets of water. Not your typical term abroad . . . Many images here are from the port city of Cape Coast. Cape Coast Castle, a fort built by European slave traders, is located there. An estimated three million captured West Africans passed through the fort en route to a life of slavery, primarily in the Americas.