Pikworo Slave Camp

Pikworo Slave Camp, also promoted as Pikworo Heritage and Slave Camp, is a heritage site at Paga Nania in the Kassena-Nankana West District of Ghana's Upper East Region, roughly 3 km west of Paga. It is recorded as having been established in 1704 and active until 1845, when it served as an inland transit point in the 18th- and 19th-century slave trade.

Captives gathered from the north were held and auctioned at the camp before being marched about 150 km south to the Salaga Slave Market and onward to the coast for shipment. Ghanaian traders sold captives to English, French and Dutch slave traders, and an average of about 200 enslaved people were reportedly held at the camp at any one time.

The site's documented features are largely cut into or formed from rock. Man-made bowls scooped into the stone served as eating plates, with larger scoops used to serve more people, and a gash in a large rock served as a water source. Other recorded features include a punishment rock where escapees were reportedly chained naked in the sun, a slave cemetery or mass grave, and a lookout point.

Because these features are not self-explanatory at first glance, the site is best visited with a local guide who can point out and interpret them. Visitors should expect a low-key, largely unmarked landscape rather than a conventional museum experience.

In December 2024 the Ghana Tourism Authority commissioned a redeveloped facility at the site, comprising a periphery wall, frontage, summer huts, washrooms and an administration block with a waiting area, reception, a manager's room and a souvenirs display room. Remaining works listed at that time included fencing, the graveyard and landscaping, and a five-member committee was inaugurated to oversee operations.

Practical details such as opening hours, entry fees, guide arrangements and transport options are not established by the available sources and should be confirmed locally before travelling. The published coordinates (10.9633, -1.117) mark the site feature rather than a confirmed visitor entrance.