A weathered colonial-era stone building on a small Atlantic island, with faded walls and a narrow dark doorway opening toward the sea.

Senegal’s fading monuments to its slave-trading past

Along Senegal’s Atlantic coast, the physical remnants of the transatlantic slave trade are gradually disappearing, as Magzter reported. From weathered colonial-era buildings on Gorée Island to ageing trading posts in Saint-Louis, structures that once bore witness to the forced enslavement and deportation of millions of Africans are succumbing to time, neglect, and the pressures of […]

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