Article #11 in the YCC Kids Club Ghana Student Life Stories Project Our Educational Trip to Cape Coast By Kakraba Praise, Age 13
While on the Canopy Walk, I looked down, down, down– two hundred and fifty meters down!– and I felt like I was going to fall through the leaves and smash upon the earth at any minute!
This was on a trip to Cape Coast with eleven other students, thanks to Youth Creating Change and Bright Star Vision USA. [...Read More!]
It is true: seeing remnants of the brutal trans-Atlantic slave trade is an utterly different experience in Africa than in America.
Throughout our lives as Americans, we study slavery and its legacy, reading textbooks, going to museums, hearing guest speakers, writing reports, and seeing movies. It rips your heart out, but America must never stop remembering!
When you enter the doors of Cape Coast slave castle in Ghana, however, you realize: there is a whole new part of your heart to [...Read More!]
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