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Mark Moxon's Travel Writing

Ghana: The Prempeh Room

The courtyard of St George's Castle, Elmina
The courtyard of St George's Castle in Elmina, with the Prempeh Room at the end of the battlements on the left

If I hadn't been told of the existence of the Prempeh Room I would never have spotted it, but thanks to an off-the-cuff comment by Mr Prempeh back in Accra, I knew what to look for. And so I discovered that St George's Castle has a link to the Prempeh family, which helped make a fascinating castle even more enthralling.

The Prempeh Room
The Prempeh Room was where the king began his long exile from Ghana