Evan Caplan is a food and travel writer based in Washington, D.C. He covers bars and restaurants, dishes and drinks, and the people and politics behind our food. He currently serves as the food ...

Walking into Elmina Castle I felt a sense of aggression. I visited the castle as a tourist looking for other Black Americans to interview about their experience. Being a first-generation Ghanaian ...

When I was 12 or 13 and living in Frankfurt, Germany, my parents loaded my siblings and me into the car and we drove about four hours south and east to a small-ish town in the Bavarian region that was ...

Some local tourists have called for renewed interest and deeper engagement by Ghanaians with the Elmina Castle and surrounding heritage sites, saying such efforts would strengthen national history, ...

Forty years after Prince Henry's expeditions first acquired gold dust and twenty-one years after the Prince's death, Portugal began constructing a trading outpost on Africa's Guinea coast, near a ...

When Macon’s first, and so far, only black mayor C. Jack Ellis pioneered a sister city relationship with Elmina, Ghana in 2001, he was notably ridiculed and criticized from ignorance and ...