The Door of No Return
Several months ago when I was reading Yaa Gyasi’s brilliantly written novel, Homegoing, I flashed back to this moment in 2008, when I visited Elmina Castle on the coast of Ghana and got a view of ‘the door of no return’. One of the darkest periods in the history of mankind when people were taken against their will to a land where they were stripped of their rights as human beings. This was the point where people left their homelands to the New World never to return.