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Photos: Goree Island, Dakar, Senegal (2017)

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Goree Island off the south coast of Dakar had been serving as a slave trade outpost from the middle 15th century up to the abolition of slavery. Uncountable generations of Africans got a last glimpse of their mother continent whilst setting off for their precarious journey across the ocean to the Americas and their doom to a new miserable life of forced labour. … [Read more...]

Photos: Bissau, Guinea Bissau (2017)

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Right at the point where Geba River makes its exodus into the Atlantic Ocean lies Bissau, the capital city of Guinea Bissau, former Portuguese Guinea. Its old, neglected, rotting colonial structure renders it reminiscent of a ghost town. A ghost town, however, teeming with life and high hopes of recovery from the decades-long hardships the country has been experiencing. … [Read more...]

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