Creating Spiritual
Connections
Birthright Journeys works with professional site and tour guides, traditional leaders, university professors and community activists to engage and offer you the best experience in Ghana.
Our Journeys
Experiential Connection to Ghana
Birthright Journeys offers an experiential voyage to Ghana and connects you to a full immersion in the heritage and history of black ancestry. We facilitate your Journey to the motherland to walk the route of your ancestors. Birthright Journeys assists and enable all living descendants of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to visit Africa and connect with their roots.
We provide airport pickups, ground transportation, great lodging and travel around Ghana with an ‘incredible’ itinerary. Get your visa and ticket for this pilgrimage.
We work with individuals, families, educational institutions, churches and socio-cultural groups that identify with our mission.
Why visit Ghana on the ‘Birthright Journeys’?
An estimated 10-12 million enslaved Africans were transported in the transatlantic slave trade, at the rate of up to 100,000 persons per year. The remnants of the trade in Ghana are still visible today — in dozens of forts and castles built by Europeans between the years 1482 and 1786.
With 32 forts and slave castles designated as UNESCO World Heritage sites in Ghana (more than any other nation on earth) and several unaccounted that lay in ruins, the West African nation is regarded as the hub and epicenter of the ‘unfortunate’ events.
The Castles and Forts of Ghana shaped not only the country’s history but that of the world for over four centuries as the focus of first, the gold trade and then the slave trade. The Cape Coast and Elmina Castles are two of the principal depots, often called “slave castles,” that held enslaved persons from kingdoms all across Africa.
These castles are significant and emotive symbols/edifices of European-African encounters and the starting point of the African Diaspora.
