When I think of Friends in Africa, I generally picture the large East African yearly meetings in Kenya and Uganda which trace their beginnings to three evangelical Friends who arrived in Kenya in 1902 and set up a mission in Kaimosi.
In this month’s Friends Journal Paul Ricketts profiles a smaller Quaker outpost on the Atlantic coast in Ghana. A group of Americans traveled there last year as a delegation of the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent.
Ghana was also the departure point of millions of enslaved Africans headed toward death and misery in the Western Hemisphere. Paul takes us to infamous Elmina Castle, where the ships were loaded with chained human cargo. I always enjoy stories of Quaker intervisitation but this one is especially poignant.