Dagbe cultural center

We spent one week of intense drumming and dancing at the cultural center. The center was in the far east of Ghana right on the border of Togo. Since we were the only students there we each had 5 instructors for the 2 hour afternoon drumming session. In the morning we had a brutal 2 hour dance lesson.

This was our drumming and dancing class.

These were just some of the drums that the cultural center had.

Our main instructor Mensah was a really good teacher.

Every evening we went to the "bar" which was exactly the same as the classroom. This is my mom and Mary, one of the instructors. 

We spent lots of time with our friend Kofi Jackson. He was also an instructor but he mostly just hung out with guests. He doesn't look like it, but he is 17.

Cape coast

We went to cape coast directly from the cultural center. For the first few days we didn't really do much. We mostly just hung out. On the third day there, me and my parents took a drumming course but Gabriel was sick so he didn't come. We thought it was hand drumming but it was the same thing we did at the cultural center and it was not that good. We spent most of our second last day at the castle taking a tour. The castle was built by the English. The castle was a slave trading castle. My brother got malaria while we were at Cape Coast. We were lucky that no one else did.

This was the main courtyard of the castle.

This was one of the holding cells they put about two hundred people in here. There were a few other cells, but all the same size. 

This was the main building where the colonialists stayed.

This is the Door Of No Return where all the slaves walked through to get to the slave boats.

The canons were there to fight off pirates and other slave traders.

This was the poor area of cape coast.