A yellow bill kite stands as a sentry over the Fort at Goree Island, watching all that enter the museum emerge as more enlightened and informed human beings.
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One confronts. One reimagines. Both insist that memory matters. And that Black life, even in its most ghosted spaces, still claims beauty, still claims breath.
I’m trembling.
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Young woman giving me the side eye. Older woman behind her to the left is eying her. Photo taken on crowded ferry.
Side Eye. On the ferry to Goree Island #Senegal. I have long since given up on being stealth. #streetphoto #streetphotography #africa #goreeisland #worldtraveler #bnw #bwphoto
A gold plaque that says: Barack Obama Pilgrim of Memory For Peace Gore 27/06/2013 The gold plaque is on a marble plaque attached to a yellow wall
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The plaque commemorates Barack Obama’s visit to Goree Island in 2013 where he visited La Maison des Enclaves (the House of Slaves) - a memorial to the victims of the Atlantic slave trade
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#Senegal
L’île de Gorée—a beautiful island with a heart wrenching past, hundreds of years as a center for transatlantic slave trade. #unescoworldheritage #goreeisland
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