Senegal's Goree Island | Showcase Special

In this Showcase Special, we are in Goree Island of Senegal, an island that combines an almost unimaginable past with hope and lessons for the future. Showcase's Miranda Atty explores this island with huge cultural importance for Senegal and talks to locals and artists to find out more.

[EleanorLBest]

1983 - I stood in that doorway, on Gorèe, Sunu Gal (Senegal) and silently said "Wrong, I have returned."

This was my first 'Door of No Return' of the several I would encounter and silently repeat my little ritual.

In Benin, there was no door, so my Beninoise brothers and sisters erected an arch at the terminus of the slave road that led to the slavers i.e the sl

[dembaguite]

Thank you for uploading this video sister

[gq]

whats the name of the song playing in the back ground 6:47 i can't remember

[evabrownlee]

Goree island is not the exact place where slaves were traded it is just a monument to it to the fact this is a Moorish mansion. And they weren't African-Americans they were indigenous Americans they made the slaves out of Indians