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Pikworo Slave camp

Pikworo Slave camp, Historical slave transit site in Paga nania, Ghana.

Pikworo Slave camp is a rock-strewn transit site at Paga Nania, about 3 km west of Paga in Ghana's Upper East Region. Captives were held among the boulders, and the rock surfaces still show man-made scoops used as eating bowls and a gash that served as the slave masters' water source.

The site was established in 1704 and operated until 1845 as a trading post where English, French, and Dutch merchants bought enslaved people for transport. From here, they were moved toward coastal ports for shipment.

The site is remembered through the carved rock bowls, whose size indicated how many captives ate from each, and through the water gash in a large rock used for cooking. Guide James Suran-Era recounts that after abolition in Europe people fled, knowing what awaited them, and the camp was abandoned.

The camp lies among rock formations at Paga Nania, about 3 km west of Paga in the Upper East Region. Visitors walk over uneven, rocky ground between the carved bowls and the water gash in the rock, so sturdy shoes help. Local guides lead tours and explain the site's history; there are no underground chambers.

Large circular depressions carved into the rocks served as communal feeding spots, with their size revealing how many people were held at each location. These bowls are among the few physical traces that directly document the number of captives.

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