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).

GOREE ISLAND, Senegal (AP ... Yellen, in Senegal as part of a 10-day trip aimed at rebuilding economic relationships between the U.S. and Africa, stood in the Gorée Island building known ...

(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 ...

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

(Panapress) As my guide for the day, Aladji Ndiaye says Gorée is a small ... the welcome the group received from the Senegalese - as well as a trip by the whole delegation to Goree Island. Deeply ...

“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 ...