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Ghana draws African-American tourists with 'Year of Return'

African-Americans are flocking to Ghana as it marks the "Year of Return" and the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship landing in Virginia. [AFP]

US preacher Roxanne Caleb blinked away the tears as she emerged from a pitch-dark dungeon where African slaves were once held before being shipped across the Atlantic to America.

"I wasn't prepared for this. I'm heartbroken," she told AFP as she toured the Cape Coast slave fort on Ghana's ocean shore.

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