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Canoes lying at dock @ Elmina castle, Elmina, Ghana, 2015

Canoes lying at dock @ Elmina castle

2015 Elmina, Ghana

Painted fishing canoes rest at the dock near Elmina Castle in this 2015 photograph. The castle, built by the Portuguese in 1482, is one of the oldest European structures in sub-Saharan Africa and later became a hub of the transatlantic slave trade.

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