elmina a slave caso a place of terror for many african-americans and sisters. by coming here and seeing it with. their descendants hope to gain a clearer sense of the own history of. this gate of no return once led across the atlantic to america. for marcus returning to america is unthinkable. nothing national. in for me i just feel that. we have to we have to make our own change we cannot allow basically expect somebody else to make a change when they have been saying way for a news. and the french have the same. thing change with the status saying. so for me i can i can live in that is assisting us. having crossed the ocean in this direction from america. and marcus announced set on making history in africa. as a prague on the end you are always welcome home now if you live in or have ever been to lagos nigeria you probably know about the slums. known as the welds biggest floating city it is home to about 300000 people despite its size mccorkle has never had any city planning documents but that is about to change. welcome to my cocoa a floating slum in the ni

the two dungeons we visited are called elmina and cape cose. part of the country right on the beach. it was a solemn and emotional experience to enter the dungeon, to close our eyes and imagine what our ancestors experienced. an added challenge we all faced was the mystery of knowing that our ancestors were held captive there but that we had no knowledge of who they were. captured africans were stripped of their languages, ethnic identities, tribal and family ties. we saw the areas of the dungeons that were large enough to hold about 50 to 100 people but where hundreds were held. rooms without sunlight. forced to lay in their own excreme excrement. no access to water to bathe. only given enough food and water to keep them alive but deliberately kept in a weakened state so they could not organize or resist. those that did attempt to resist were mutilated and left in separate rooms and slowly starved to death. females were routinely made to stand in line while their captors would choose one of them. she was then washed and led up a staircase to a