Fortress
Fort Komenda
🇬🇭 Ghana · 20th century
Fort Komenda was a British fort on the Gold Coast, currently preserved as a ruin. Because of its testimony to the Atlantic slave trade and European economic and colonial influence in West Africa, the fort was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979, along with several other castles and forts in Ghana.
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Fort Komenda ranks #3,487 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #20 of the 31 mapped in Ghana. Founded 1957 — one of 118 atlas entries founded in the 20th century. See how Ghana compares in the castle statistics.
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