Returning to the “Door of No Return”.

2009-09-16T13:25:12-07:00By |Categories: Colette Eloi, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , |

I wonder if my ancestors imaged that their children would ever come back home to Africa. After experiencing being captured beat, chained together and walked miles and miles from their homes, ancestral lands, family, language, culture, religion, food, flora and fauna to sit and wait in a dungeon. To be taken to a place on boats named “Jesus” and such. The slave dungeon in Elmina, Ghana is called a castle ironically enough and a church sits on top of it.