Senegal's Goree Island | Showcase Special
In this Showcase Special, we are in Goree Island of Senegal, an island that combines an almost unimaginable past with hope and lessons for the future. Showcase's Miranda Atty explores this island with huge cultural importance for Senegal and talks to locals and artists to find out more.
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1983 - I stood in that doorway, on Gorèe, Sunu Gal (Senegal) and silently said "Wrong, I have returned." This was my first 'Door of No Return' of the several I would encounter and silently repeat my little ritual. In Benin, there was no door, so my Beninoise brothers and sisters erected an arch at the terminus of the slave road that led to the slavers i.e the sl
@EleanorLBest
11 ай бұрын
i.e. the slave ships that would carry my ancestors away from our Motherland. I walked through that sad but beautiful arch, turned around with my back to the shore, and walked back through, repeating my little ritual, "Wrong, I have returned."
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whats the name of the song playing in the back ground 6:47 i can't remember
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@nqobileshezi8887
2 жыл бұрын
Good work. God blespsl
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Goree island is not the exact place where slaves were traded it is just a monument to it to the fact this is a Moorish mansion. And they weren't African-Americans they were indigenous Americans they made the slaves out of Indians