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Cultural Heritage African Tours

Cultural Heritage African Tours is a Pan-African initiative that aims to promote

the unification of African people.

For over 40 years, Prof. James Small has conducted educational and cultural tours
throughout Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

General Tour Highlights

(varies with tours)

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W.E.B. DuBois Centre for Pan Africanism

The W.E.B. DuBois Centre for Pan Africanism is the final burial place and home of the prominent American Pan-Africanist, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, who led the Pan-African congress between 1919 and 1927. It is currently a Pan African Center for culture and it also has a research library and gallery full of manuscripts.

Continue to visit the Presidential Museum of Ghana located inside the Christiansburg Castle and former office and residence of the Head of States and Presidents of Ghana.

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum is a Memorial and Third burial grounds for the First Head of State and President of independent Ghana. The Mausoleum site was the Old Polo grounds for the European during the colonial period until 1957. This Mausoleum has been visited by many world dignitaries.

Afterwards, we usually head to the Arts and Crafts market to browse a wide selection of Ghanaian handicraft souvenirs. This offers you the opportunity to try out your bargaining skills on the local vendors and to “shop till you drop”.

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Pikworo/Nania Slave Camp

In Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana, we would take a scenic drive to Navrongo in the Upper East Region. Arrive at Nania Slave Camp near Ghana’s border with Burkina Faso to visit the Pikworo/Nania Slave Camp, 2km from the town centre, that served as a holding camp for the African captives awaiting transfer to Salaga, then the largest slave Market in the North, but which is no longer visible.

Nalerigu Slave Defense Wall

Visit the Nalerigu Slave Defense Wall built on the orders of Naayili, the King of the Mamprugu, to defend his town against the invasion of slavery raiders.

Visit Sakpuli Slave Camp. Arrive and visit the community chief, the slave market, and the Baobab tree where captives were chained on pegs. The Community, such as chains, coins, and pottery, Slave Museum has relics of slavery, such as chains, coins, and pottery, which were discovered and are now exhibited by the Archaeology Department of the University of Ghana.

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Salaga Wells &
Salaga Slavery Museum

Visitors to Salaga today can still see the Salaga wells, which served enslaved African. A young Baobab Tree has replaced the old one on the site of the old slave market.

Visit the Slavery Museum to see the few artifacts of slavery that were preserved by the town.

Cape Coast Dungeon

Go on a comprehensive tour of the slave dungeons, where enslaved Africans were incarcerated; see the West African Heritage Museum; and visit the negotiation hall where our ancestors were bargained for and sold.

(Please note, the West African Heritage Museum is currently closed down for renovation.)

In the evening, return to Cape Coast. Join other African Americans and other pilgrims in a Candlelight Procession to the Cape Coast Dungeon for activities marking the Emancipation Proclamation at midnight. Candlelight Vigil.

ALL PARTICIPANTS IN WHITE ATTIRE

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Elmina Dungeon

Continue to visit the Elmina Dungeon, used as an auction market for enslaved Africans, for a comprehensive guided tour. See the slave dungeons and condemned cells, where slaves who resisted were incarcerated and starved to death.

Assin Manso

Visit Assin Manso for Emancipation Day Celebration for the Durbar of Chiefs and people of the diaspora. You will visit one of the biggest slave markets during the slave trade era. See for yourself the river where the enslaved had their last bath before sending them to the dungeons.

Visit the DONKO NSUO (the Slave River), where the African captives were allowed to take their last bath in the waters of their native land. The European merchants branded their bodies for identification before they were marched to the dungeons in Elmina and Cape Coast.

This offers you the opportunity to send a message to your ancestors.

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Sekondi / Bisa Aberwa Museum

Depart Elmina to Sekondi and pay a courtesy Call on the Omanhen and Paramount Chief of Essikado Traditional Area, Nana Kobina Nketsia VI. Learn Akan traditional court etiquette firsthand, with traditional drumming and dancing, in which you will be encouraged to participate.

Participate in a traditional naming ceremony where you will be given local Akan names according to the

Ahanta people’s tradition.

Visit the Bisa Aberwa Museum, located in Nkotompo near Effia-Nkwanta Hospital, Sekondi, in the Western Region.

Kakum National Park

Visit the Kakum National Park. Go for a morning walk on the Kuntan Trail with its countless trees with medicinal properties. For the young at heart, experience the Canopy Walkway suspended 100 feet from the forest ground for a panoramic view of the flora and fauna of the remaining vestiges of the rainforest.