A Man in Sandema pointing at Akumcham, a spot where Babatu's wife is said to have been executed at the peak of resistance to slave raids among the Bulsa. Babatu, the notorious slave trader, abandoned his wife in the face of defeat. The spot is called “Akumcham”, meaning the creeping shea tree, “a metaphor for Babatu’s wife’s agony.”
Saboro, Emmanuel,
"Akumcham: Site of Babatu's Wife's Execution"
(2013).
Video and Photo Gallery: Memory of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Northern Ghana.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0JD4VBH
This collection contains still and moving images of historical sites and performances collected by Dr. Emmanuel Saboro related to the memories of slavery and the slave trade in northern Ghana.
