Jesse:
We are having lunch with Shirley and Blankson at the Castle Restaurant in Cape Coast. Shirley is a journalist for one of Ghana's national papers and Blankson, a history scholar and tourism expert, is acting as our guide in the Cape and surrounds. As it turns out Blankson and Shirley attended some of the same schools in the cape.

During a debate about the role of the Christian Church in Ghanaian society, Shirley brought up the profound point that without the church, poverty would ignite the masses and there would be violence.

We also toured Blanson's Alma Mater, University of Cape Coast, where we met Mrs. G. Mansa Feddy Akyea of the Department of Languages. Caryl's looking forward to meeting her husband who is also a visual artist.

The Castle Tour
We toured Cape Coast Castle and I cried in the dungeons. Some other observations:

• This is the first time I've been in building that is solely dedicated to slavery
• Inside the men's dungeon is a local shrine whose spirit was removed before the slave castle was built and returned in 1974
• The church of the castle was built above the dungeon and also above the location of the shrine

Slave river
Caryl and I also went to the river where slaves were cleaned before being brought to the castles.
On the way back to Cape Coast and the Mighty Victory Hotel we shared a cab with a newly instooled chief who lives in Prince William county Virginia. He's working on a foundation for youth that bring more technology into Ghana.