U. of Ghana Professor Leads Project to Study Slavery's Legacy in Africa

In Salaga, a town in northern Ghana that long ago held one of the most infamous slave markets in West Africa, there lives an old woman whose forefathers were slave traders. She keeps in a corner of her modest hut some of the very chains that were used to bind her countrymen to trees before they were sold to foreign slave traders.

Last year, the woman discussed her family's involvement in the slave trade with Kofi Anyidoho, an African

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