Memorial Garden of Return / Anomabo Heroes Centre

The Memorial Garden of Return, also known as the Anomabo Heroes Centre, is a memorial garden and tourist centre in Anomabo (Anomabu), Mfantsiman Municipal district, Central Region, Ghana. It sits adjacent to Anomabo Fort and its Visitor Centre, in the precincts of Fort William, built between 1753 and 1757.

The garden was transformed into the "Memorial Garden of Return" under the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture's Legacy Project for the Year of Return, Ghana 2019. It was inaugurated at Anomabo by the then Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs Barbara Oteng-Gyasi, who also inaugurated the adjacent tourist centre, intended as an information point and welcoming environment for visitors. The project was presented as part of the Year of Return's social impact and community development programme, expected to invigorate local businesses.

Before refurbishment the Heroes Garden held portrait statues of Kwegyir Aggrey, Ekem Ferguson and Nana Amonoo I of Anomabo; symbolic statues of people of the African diaspora returning "home" were added. George Ekem Ferguson (1864–1897) was a civil servant, surveyor and cartographer credited as the first to draw the map of Ghana. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey (1875–1927) was an intellectual, missionary and teacher who became the first Vice-Principal of Achimota College. Statues of ordinary Ghanaian citizens are also present. A news account calls the park "cute and well-kept", providing "the kind of atmosphere one needs to think about our national past and collective future". The site is run by a team led by Nana Victor Osei Gyasi, described as an enterprising manager of the Visitor Centre.

A separate academic account documents a sculpture group commissioned by the Ghana Tourism Authority and mounted at Anomabo Landing Beach (Heroes' Park) to mark 400 years of the Transatlantic Slave Trade under the Year of Return. Five figures were cast in fibreglass-reinforced polyester resin in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, and transported to Anomabo for installation. They are in-the-round, figural and true-to-life, appearing in striding motion, with one male figure carrying an infant girl on his chest, mounted on a structure depicting the Map of Ghana to signify national rather than regional significance. The monuments were commissioned by government officials and the chiefs and people of Anomabo.

The sources describe the site in overlapping but not identical terms — Heroes Garden, Heroes Centre, Memorial Garden of Return, and Heroes' Park at the landing beach — and the relationship between these names and locations is not fully resolved. Opening hours, fees, guided tours and accessibility are not established by the sources consulted and should be confirmed locally before travelling.