Goree Island is just 3 km off the Senegalese coast' Image: Goree Island is just 3 km off the Senegalese coast Photographs: K N Devaki Although I was on an official trip to Senegal, I did manage to ...

We took a day trip to Goree Island, visited by President Barack Obama in 2014 because of its famous “Door of No Return” (or “Doorway to Nowhere,” depending on which translation is used).

and most know and recognize the island for its historical significance. Mbodji had been generous enough to schedule a family ...

(CBS News) President Obama is in Africa this week, and his stop in Senegal brought him to Goree Island, a historical ... professional significance of the trip as the first African-American U.S ...

One of these posts was the tiny island of Goree, off the coast of the West African ... Even a week or even a day would be too much. It is just horrifying." This doorway leading out of the House ...

“We’re on a living island. People have aspirations and we must take them into account,” he stresses. The museum itself still uses traditional live-guided tours for visitors ... visitors – up to 1,500 ...

On the first leg of the Obamas’ trip to Africa, the First Family paid a visit to Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. Mrs. Obama penned an emotional essay about her experience on the ...

The First Family visited the “Door of No Return” on Senegal’s Goree Island Thursday afternoon ... Obama told reporters at the scene that the trip was a reminder that “we have to remain ...

Criterion (vi): The Island of Goree is an exceptional testimony to one of the greatest tragedies in the history of human societies: the slave trade. The various elements of this “memory island” – ...

This year's special guest country was Cape Verde whose President Pedro Pires toured the final day of the festival. Goree Island's mayor says he wants to make the Island a hub of civilization based ...