Slavery should never be compared to anything. We should teach teach teach and remember. Respect to the ancestors who suffered.

I was 10years old when I visited the Cape coast slave castle. I'm Ghanaian and as a kid, I felt some very strange emotions. Something way too strong, I couldn't till this day explain. Listen, even if you never knew that slavery ever existed, the pain, the hurt, the cruelty will hit you right in the face when you step foot in those dungeons. The spirits of our common ancestors are very present in there. May God take away the pain of slavery.

WE MUST NEVER FORGET.......

Anderson Cooper did very well with this report. Seems to be an intelligent and compassionate human being who approached this terrible situation with great sensitivity and compassion.

Ghana is the future of us Black people here in america so lets go there and visit and live there.

The ancestors are talking to their descendants. They say “this is your land, this is your home. You belong here. Come back home...”

Im a descendent of Ghana my grandfather Tanga came though the doors of no return.

if you are a black man or a black woman , be it in American or in Europe you are from African that is your origin all the black people in the world to day are from African .

Just by watching the video gives me chills all over my body I can imagine that those slaves felt and went thru at that place

very powerful....

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Thanks - 2013 marks the highest interest in Africa's development since 1960s. Thank you!

im proud to be half ghanain

Five Thousand African Americans? I never knew. That's amazing.

Excellent news report. I visited Cape Coast last year, and it was a very difficult experience to see the actual dungeons, the scratches in the walls, the inhuman conditions, which ironically is set against a beautiful landscape.

If they call me a foreigner I am going to tell them that I AM NOT a Foreigner as they took my family from Ghana hear and took them to america and made them a slave for 400 years,so I am a BLACK AFRICAN just like you. I am going to visit Ghana too and I am going to live there too.

touching story n so true ....may God bless my ancesstores......R.I.P....my forefathers

That woman can cook. Please go to her restaurant "One Africa" beautiful place and a lot of love.

Anderson is pure. I can tell his spirit is untainted

Thank you for teaching me about this!!

So deep...

Never gets old 2020 AC is the best. Same Passage.

God, they did everything the could to break us.

i met imakus at a cultural dance show she had brought her tour gourp too. i was in ghana to visit with my husbands family. she was very kind and very friendly. she took some pictures for our family. she is very right about the reception black americans can expect in ghana. they will be welcomed and treated well, but more than likely, will not be treated like a local(this is according to my husbands family)they know the difference. they can spot an black american or foreigner a mile away.

I like. Going to Ghana to visit the dungeons.

This is so refreshing! I think all black people need to travel to the homeland Africa

This hits home I know my history Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt my family worked there plantation

Al hamdu ALILAH, Insha AL ILAH We will meet, masha AL ILAH we will meet!

Two people I love, President Obama and Anderson Cooper.

Nice

On another video, the guide for the tourists in Ghana stated this important truth, “United WE stand, divided WE fall,”. that was another reason for the slave trade. Then he read a promise that the people of Ghana have written because of their part in the trade. It was powerful. We must learn from our mistakes. ❤️ . I love Africa. I always have and plan to go one day. It’s like my spirit YEARNS to go there.

Nice good job

I think the best way to tear down the language barrier is to learn the language of the natives. If I going to be in Africa, whatever country I'm living in....I'm learning the language and assimilating where I'm able to. Ijs

Welcome to my country Akwaaba

It would be nice if my country would give us a free DNA test to see what part of Africa we are from. Since they don't believe in reparation, let us know where we came from. That is something that was taken from us. So we can reconnect with our African relatives. Some may need our help. The starving African child they show on TV could be my relative.

Ghana 600 yrs ago consist of most of mali. Ghana is not the small piece of crap the euronuts craved out of africa and call it today. Ghana was alot more bigger in ancient time.

im 11 years old and im a ghanian dutch american

@chimarathon Most of the blacks that were shipped away from the West Coast of Africa ended in the U.S. But, the ones that landed in South America, especially in Brazil were those from Central and Southern Africa like Angola. That explains why the U.S. is for the most part pointed at when talking about slavery from the west coast of Africa like Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Guinea etc. I liked your reaction, though. it is smart.

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I like the part after this about haiti.

This place alot of ghosts around there sometimes you go there you can hear voice of people crying

When I was there working with the Ashanti in 2008 as a missionary. I was told that the slaves sold to the Spanish Slave Ships were prisoner's from a local tribal war. I am not now or ever for this type of abomination. But history speaks for itself. North American indigenous people were removed and killed. But dark and Light tone skinned people live on those lands in the USA my How We Forget

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I wish that Isha Sesay was there to see this or even to cover this report. I would have cried with her and all the other black people who walked into these dungeons.

ANDERSON COOPER THIS IS TOUCHING REPORT!!!

MOST OF THE PEOPLE in Afrikan , THE MAJORITY DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY OF Afrika , i mean real Afrikan history ,

good job Makeba.

One of the reasons Africa is behind is, during the slave capturing, a village will be raided and all the strong men and women captured leaving only the old people and children to start over. This process is repeated for over 400 years. Most of the people that could have help in the development of their home either ended up at the bottom of the sea or in a foreign land as SLAVES. The traumatised children left at home has no one to teach them the ways of life and how to protect themselves.

It is NOT a castle. It is a prison.

Even these current Generation of them fail to apologize about these meaning , the abuse is in thier bloods, our black forefathers and mothers died in this slavery journey,

The saddest part is when babies were separated from their mothers and travel separated other babies born in ships. Then walked in chains to another dungeon in South America and then to North America. I can not imagine the cry and blood of these babies with no clothes no water and not the right to get sick. I imagine many babies have flue and pneumonia and with no mother cos they were put in another dungeon. This is beyond evil. Some people think that children were left behind that is not true. Children were slaved since 5 years old and branded with hot fire.

I'm a black woman, and I just want to say that I'm so glad to have been born in America. While some may find the culture in Ghana and other undeveloped (in relation to the U.S.) places interesting, I think it's just interesting to watch for the moment. I have no desire to move to Ghana or any underdeveloped place. My idea of a good life is just different. To each their own. Great video.

@OBAMAisHalfCaste Good post.

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Watching this.... Reinsure me that my ancestors was not calling on no dam jesus... No white man with blue eyes

It depend where you go to be spoted as Black American in Africa. Why do you think African American are so deferrent? Most African American looks African than the African. Anybody that goes to the villeges, can be spoted as from outside from that area based on the types of tribes that lives there. When TZA city people go to the villeges, they also get spoted as from outside. This happens throughout the whole contenent. Most African Americans still need to explore Africa for the next generation.

@Shelby596 Hmm, those are pretty sexy photos of Anderson Cooper. :P

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wicket sick

This video is something....Obama is east African they had a different experience than that of the west African the Atlantic slave trade is a West African experience part of it history

The word 'OBRONI' means a white man, in the akan or twi language. This word is also applied to all black people Ghanaians who have come from Europe, Arican-Americans, Jamaicans and all people of African descent not residing in Ghana. Even, l and my brothers who have been out of Ghana for a long time but still have large number of family and relatives in Ghana are called obroni when we visit. So my African-American brothers and sisters should not take offense or feel discriminated at when the word is used on them in Ghana.

Obronii kokoo,is an Akan name for a white man, the obronii means the wicked one, the destroyer, the thieve and the kokoo means the the Red skin man

Until today, many Europeans gorther every year to pray for there families that were killed in those war by chiefs rejecting religions. You won't find this in your missionary church. They took it really hard for morking there religion and culture. Take it look at the pop how he dreases, or your preachers how they dreses. It is African culture. In order to understand this, you must master Africa or East-Africans,Tanzanian people in the mountain of gods place called "Arusha".

we suppose to fight these Babylon's back for them to feel how i felt now

My ancestors were Liberian

@OBAMAisHalfCaste well said,half -caste, i think a lot african americans should really understand what it really means and stop coming up names like mixed race and biracial. the europeans called it HALF-CASTE

@OBAMAisHalfCaste did u say they look more white than black,where do u live,where are u from??

IT OBRONI white man. Goose pumps all over me. Really very, very sad.

Come to Tanzania to learn real history. We reject nonsences. Christian is the original African culture. Come and see it in Tanzania still existing in the villeges. These people still don't want even the westerner to come close to them. Well protected by the gorvernment.

He dnt understand....

LOOL did he said Abroni

Anderson didn't you learn anything on that tour? The majority of slaves were shipped to Europe and South America (mainly Brazil). Slavery wasn't just the Unites States' problem but the entire world. But we are taught that slavery is all our (USA) fault.

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They think they can do African like that.

original obama is from kenya and kenya is in african not in europe there is nothing like half caste if you are black you are black and if you are white you are white and that is all take a good look at him you dont need any body to tell you that his a real black man history can never lie .

@OBAMAisHalfCaste where did you hear that from? black is the most dominant gene in biracials and most biracials have naturally tan skin.if they are half black,how can the white people be darker than them during the summer? where do you live to believe that? half-caste or biracial people are tan skin naturally and not whiter than whites lol.btw i am a half-caste and i am tan

Not all African American from Ghana. That was just the major shipments and for dealer Arabs to make there money from the business partners European. I lought when people say Africans sold there own people. Who told you that, your own slave master and your converted church. Did you know, in Tanzania we hard war with the missionary bring religions that marked our culture? Our African preasts chieves rejected those religions. Maybe those are the prisoners you talking about.

I heard slave trader paid rival tribes to capture and turn over their enemies. They did wat tell they would be offshore or else they would not comply. Maybe that's why they built the jail with door leading to the coast on the other side.

The evil that man do...

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@OBAMAisHalfCaste really?? u think that the white sees it at different,we black sees at different, the white doesnt??

Making devils deals is not improvement.

The term obroni is a twi language..it is a combination of " obro ni" meaning wicked one

@OBAMAisHalfCaste well here in europe,where i live and 90% of the whites here,are white white white,dont call it mixed-race or biracial,they call u by your nationality,and if they dont know,its just black,i am vry light with curly hair and to them them i am not different from the black african that lives in african.in america its different because the whites are just mixed with indian and black, so maybe thats why they call them mixed.but here u are just black and i am very proud of lit.

alot of us were here before the slave trade. here before colombus. but you'll have to read about that too

Why don't you demand reparations from your wonderful black president?

I smell crap!

What's is this Anderson? Forget our resources and people and go your way! Come and get out of here with this madness! We are not emotional! But this interview angered me. Very condescending!

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