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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Stones Tell Stories at Osu: Memories of a Host Community of the Danish Transatlantic Slave Trade

Stones Tell Stories at Osu: Memories of a Host Community of the Danish Transatlantic Slave Trade

Wellington, H. Nii-Adziri
Laryea, Philip T.

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralAfrican HistoryArchitecture History

ISBN10: 1894718151
ISBN13: 9781894718158
Publisher: Amerley Treb Books
Published: Nov 24 2017
Pages: 366
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Is a creative biographical account of the Slave Trade at Osu, one of the leading slave trading centres off the West African Coast.

Wellington employs a rhetorical device through the voice of the narrator, Ataa Forkoyi, to provoke discussion, dissolve the shame and confusion associated with the slave trade and to persuade the current generation of Africans to abandon the taboo of not speaking about it. Wellington, an architect by profession, does this by rummaging through the remaining physical ruins of the slave trade, picks up the stones one by one to construct a compelling narrative through the amalgam of values, conflicting colonial hegemony, layers of economic syncretism and the collision of cultures to bring to life the force of the relationship between the Europeans and their African counterparts.Stones Tell Stories at Osu has brought together the untold fragmented pieces of the story of the Slave Trade this side of the Atlantic and serves as the missing puzzle to those who seek answers.

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