Some 12 million Africans are thought to have been sold as slaves from Senegal to Angola over a period of 500 years. Most were destined to work in European colonies in the Americas. Today, the Ghanaian forts from which so many were shipped have become places of pilgrimage for their descendants – and for Africans too. Read the full story here. (UK residents will need to use a proxy server to read the article.)

Article published on BBC Travel on 13 June 2013.