PIKWORO SLAVE CAMP

18/02/2026

Time to Tour

17/03/2025

15/02/2025

We host this again.

Over the years, our brothers and sisters in the diaspora responded to our call to help us solve drinking water problems in our communities. Greater number of boreholes have been made available for people in the communities to access portable drinking water. We mark this significant help with a celebration each year to thank our cousins in the diaspora and to continuously ask for support to bring relieve to our families in the surrounding communities.
You are invited to join celebrate this.
Please contact us for donations and support to our communities.
Thank you .

03/12/2024

Renovation of the site is completed
Commissioning tomorrow 04/12/2024
Ministers of state
District and municipal CE
Traditional rulers
CEO of GTA and his team
Community and students will be present.

24/10/2024

Dr. Emmanuel Saboro
October 25, 2024, 1:30 PM EST

21/09/2024

Critical Reflections of the Slave Trade in Ghana: The Hidden and Lost Stories that Spaces and Places Tell

Davenport Hall, 230
DateSep 26, 2024 at 3:30 pm
If you're not able to attend in person, please register for the Zoom event: https://illinois.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sdeytqDstHtz2pVzd42DX6qHhy72DmkEL

Join the Department of Anthropology for a talk by Emmanuel Saboro, PhD from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana entitled 'Critical Reflections of the Slave Trade in Ghana: The Hidden and Lost Stories that Spaces and Places Tell' on September 26, 2024 at 3:30 PM in Davenport Hall Room 230.

Emmanuel Saboro, (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in Trans disciplinary Studies: African Literature, Cultural Memory and Slavery Studies and Director of the Centre for African and International Studies in the College of Humanities and Legal Studies at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Abstract: My aim is to call for a reading of the hidden and lost stories of key historical and cultural sites and spaces connected to the slave experience in Ghana beyond their structural representations. I aim to reflect on these sites as ritual and symbolic spaces that can speak and be understood through the invocation of metaphor. The central animating principle in the discussions that I will build upon later on, is premised on these questions: If these sites and spaces could speak, what stories will they generate or tell us? What voices would we hear buried under these sites and spaces? How may we encode the silences within these spaces?

https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/4512?eventId=33501657

19/09/2024

We are winning largely again.
Thank you for your patronage and support.

14/09/2024

DNA has been extracted from the 48 saliva samples collected in Ghana this past August!!

Saliva shipped from UCC BS: 12 August 2024
Saliva delivered to UIUC ANTH: 15 August 2024
Saliva delivered to biotech lab: 16 August 2024
DNA extracted: 13 September 2024
DNA genotyped: --

08/09/2024

Critical Reflections of the Slave Trade in Ghana: The Hidden and Lost Stories that Spaces and Places Tell

Speaker: Emmanuel Saboro, PhD
Associate Professor in Transdisciplinary Studies: African Literature, Cultural Memory and Slavery Studies
University of Cape Coast
Ghana

Sponsor: UIUC Anthropology Department
Location: Davenport Hall, 230
Date: Sep 26, 2024; 3:30 pm, CST

Abstract: My aim is to call for a reading of the hidden and lost stories of key historical and cultural sites and spaces connected to the slave experience in Ghana beyond their structural representations. I aim to reflect on these sites as ritual and symbolic spaces that can speak and be understood through the invocation of metaphor. The central animating principle in the discussions that I will build upon later on, is premised on these questions: If these sites and spaces could speak, what stories will they generate or tell us? What voices would we hear buried under these sites and spaces? How may we encode the silences within these spaces?

Author of Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement, and Resistance in African Oral Narratives.

They can be contacted at [email protected], [email protected], and/or +233 (0) 54 2027 650.

Join the Department of Anthropology on September 26, 2024 at 3:30 in Davenport hall Room 230 for the talk, "Critical Reflections of the Slave Trade in Ghana: The Hidden and Lost Stories that Spaces and Places Tell" by Emmanuel Saboro, PhD, Associate Professor in Trans disciplinary Studies: African L...

25/08/2024

This was when I gave a seminar at the University of Cape Coast (Time: Jul 9, 2024 10:00 AM GMT)

Topic: THE POWER OF GENOMICS: LINKING GENERATIONS ACROSS CONTINENTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78nV6xOOQzs

The project Co-PI Dr. Richael Mills help fielded some of the questions from attendees. Research Assistant and UIUC Anthropology PhD student Mckenzie Macon diligently took notes during the Q&A portion.

25/08/2024

We are at the site of the Last Bath in Assin Manso. This is where people were captured in northern Ghana and neighboring counties were given their last bath before being held in the slave dungeons on the coast.

In this area, there are many unmarked graves as a result of the treatment captives endured in the hands of their capturers. After I discussed the purposes of our visit, UIUC Anthropology PhD student Mckenzie Macon discussed her research ideas of using forensics and genetic genealogy to identify the human remains. She wondered what impact this would have on the local community narrative.