A decade of decay: Ghana’s presidential library that never truly opened

A decade of decay: Ghana’s presidential library that never truly opened

The cost of neglect

Across from one of Africa’s busiest slave trade monuments, Ghana’s first presidential library has spent a decade locked, decaying, a pawn in a battle over who should run it.

By
Kent Mensah
in Cape Coast

The abandoned Evans Atta Mills Presidential Library in Cape Coast, Ghana, with the Ghanaian coat of arms in black and white.

The abandoned Evans Atta Mills Presidential Library in Cape Coast, Ghana, with the Ghanaian coat of arms in black and white. © Kent Mensah/TAR

The Atlantic is rarely quiet here. Its waves crash against the rocks below Cape Coast Castle, the imposing white fortress on Ghana’s southern coastline where enslaved Africans were once held before being forced through the ‘Door of No Return’ and shipped across the Atlantic.

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