Atorkor Slave Park

Atorkor Slave Park is a heritage site in Atorkor, a coastal village in the Anlo area of the Volta Region, Ghana. It is also documented as the Atorkor Slave Trade Memorial or Atorkor Slave Market. The National Commission on Culture lists "Atorkor slave park" among the tourist attractions of the Anlo Traditional Area, alongside the Dzita sea turtle site, Fort Prinzenstein and the region's beaches.

Atorkor sits on the Atlantic coast, in the Anlo (Anloga) District, in a setting described as sandwiched between the sea and the lagoon, roughly 28 km from Keta. The village formed part of what was formerly known as the Upper Slave Coast. Its coastal position made it a port for the shipment of captives procured from the interior, and during the era of the slave trade it became an important slave market. The memorial is a way of marking that history in the place where it happened.

The monument, dated 1999, takes the form of a high-walled circular enclosure entered through a small wooden door that serves as a narrow entrance. Inside stands a life-size sculptural group: a tall European slave-trader brandishing a whip over two kneeling African figures dressed in traditional garb and chained at the neck. The interior walls carry a narrative frieze illustrating a local legend about a white trader who lived in Atorkor and the young men and women of the village who were deceived by the trader and sold into slavery.

The memorial was a collaborative undertaking. Contributors included the Keta District Tourism Development Committee, Keta Municipal Assembly, Anlo Traditional Council, Atorkor Development Foundation and the National Tourism Development Committee, and it was built with funds provided by a group of Anlo citizens in America.

Visitors should note that the evidence available for this entry does not record opening hours, entrance fees, guided tours or accessibility details, and the site's coordinates are unknown. One field record places the memorial at the Atorkor Vocational Technical Institute, and Keta Tourism states it was erected in one of Keta's technical colleges; this should be confirmed locally before a visit. Practical arrangements are best checked with the Keta Municipal Assembly or the Anlo Traditional Council.