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Outrage As American Women Who Visited Cape Coast Slave Castle In Ghana Twerk For Ancestors

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Jessica Burns

Updated on January 18, 2026

African American friends who visited the Cape Coast Slave Castle in Ghana have courted outrage for twerking on the ancestors.

Four African Americans who visited the Cape Coast Slave Castle on their visit to Ghana have received public backlash for twerking on the sisters.

The ladies came to Ghana to accompanying one of them who was is dating a Ghanaian based in USA.

Having received a good cultural welcome by the in-law of the friend, they traveled to Cape Coast Slave Castle.

They toured the castle where they were given history lessons on the trans Atlantic slave trade and the torture their ancestors went through.

After everything, these girls when close to the old canons on the castle to twerk.

A group of African-American ladies who visited the Cape Coast Castle’s slave dungeons are being bashed for twerking “for the ancestors” atop the historic site. While some social media users perceive their actions as disrespectful to the castle and the local community, others…

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Video of their twerking has caused outrage as people see it as disrespectful to the ancestors.

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