I Went Back to My Roots

2004 - Somanya, South Eastern Region, Ghana

 

I spent 13 years of searching public archives and repositories for my forebears enslaved on a sugar plantation in Jamaica.

I found my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother - Ami Djaba a who lived on Krobo Mountain.  Ami's history (the history of my forebears (Krobo history))  is captured in the book The Krobo People of Ghana, to 1892: A Political and Social History By Louis E. Wilson. 

 

Cape Coast Castle, Ghana
Cape Coast Castle, Ghana
The Door of no return
Going through the Door
Returning from no return
Reunited
Naming Ceremony
The Eldest and Wisest
Homecoming ceremony
I Tetteh Nyakonour Djaba
Meeting Uncle Henry Djaba...
Krobo Mountain
Positive thoughts
The Volta River from Krobo Mountain
Krobo Mountain
Elmina Castle, Ghana
American Students on the same trail
The Dubois memorial