Cape Coast Castle in Ghana was a slave fortress that played a large part in the capture and transportation of enslaved Africans. Profitable trade in West Africa led Europeans to set up permanent ...

Other Europeans set up permanent trading camps or forts on the West African coast ... In 1662 the British seized the Cape Coast Castle slave factory in what is now modern day Ghana.

The first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron, who hoped to bring riches to Portugal. The purpose of the exploration ...

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape ... coast in countries like the west ...