When I stepped onto the pebble-paved pathways of Senegal's Gorée Island ... I walked out of the space, through the island, and onto the return ferry to Dakar. As we reentered the city, I looked ...

The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in succession by the ...

In 1793, in response to this demand, successful merchants built the Goree Warehouses, named after Senegal's Goree Islands off the coast of Africa. When fire destroyed the buildings in 1802 ...

"We refuse to see Senegal as a blank page where everything ... In his tranquil home just off Dakar's coast on Goree island, Ricou stores engravings, postcards, glass plates and old photographs ...