Shadows of Empire in West Africa

Chapter 1 Introduction: Interpreting West Africa’s Forts and Castles

Chapter 2 Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa? Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic Entanglements and National Memory

Chapter 3 ‘Far from My Native Land, and Far from You’: Reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 4 Viewed from a Distance: Eighteenth-Century Images of Fortifications on the Coast of West Africa

Chapter 5 Illusions of Grandeur and Protection: Perceptions and (Mis)Representations of the Defensive Efficacy of European-Built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, Seventeenth–Early Nineteenth Centuries

Chapter 6 Female Agency in a Cultural Confluence: Women, Trade and Politics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast

Chapter 7 Fort Metal Cross: Commercial Epicentre of the British on the Gold Coast

Chapter 8 European Fortifications in West Africa as Architectural Containers and Oppressive Contraptions

Chapter 9 A Theatre of Memory for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Cape Coast Castle and Its Museum

Chapter 10 Diplomacy, Identity and Appropriation of the “Door of no Return”. President Barack Obama and Family in Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, 2009

Chapter 11 Recreating Pre-colonial Forts and Castles: Heritage Policies and Restoration Practices in the Gold Coast/Ghana, 1945 to 1970s