Teenager Zuriel Oduwole Tells the Harrowing Tales of Goree Island Slave Trade
It is Black History Month and the spotlight yet again shines brightly on the African continent and our long dark history.
Zuriel Oduwole, a 16-year-old filmmaker has set out to tell the world a refreshing story about the Slave Port City of Goree Island, Senegal.
As part of the commemoration of the US Black History Month, Oduwole with an all female crew shares the story of a journey that plays a solid part in history.
The story titled Door of No Return-300 Years A Slave focuses on the history of slavery and its effect on the African continent. The Slave Port City of Goree Island is one that has been told by many historians, civil scholars, economists, along with the travel and tourism departments of various African governments. It has always painted the harrowing slavery experienced by Africans while illuminating the prosperous benefits of the slave trade to the new world of Europe, America and the Caribbean cash crop plantations owners.
This is the story of Goree Island and the integral role it played in the profitable yet brutal trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 1600s and 1700s.
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