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Ghana

Black Gold of The Sun, by Ekow Eshun (2006). Searching for his roots, black Briton Eshun, artistic director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, travels to Ghana, the land of his parents' birth. Against a backdrop that includes cosmopolitan capital Accra, the slave forts of Elmina, and the warrior kingdom of the Asante, Eshun slowly comes to learn the truth about his ancestors' involvement in the African slave trade.

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