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Descendants of enslaved Africans return home

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July 3, 2025

Northern Ghana was once a focus of the trade in human lives: Captives from communities in the north such as Nok, in what is now Togo, were brought to slave markets. DW's Maxwell Suuk accompanied one group of descendants during their emotional homecoming.

Maxwell Suuk Maxwell is a DW reporter based in Tamale, Northern Ghana.
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