Takoradi

Ghana

Takoradi is Ghana's main deep-sea port, on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, forming a twin city with Sekondi. Built in the 1920s as the country's first modern harbor, it serves the cocoa and oil economy. Visitors can see the fishing harbor and market, the colonial architecture of Sekondi, and excursions to the slave-trade castles of the Gold Coast — Cape Coast Castle and Elmina Castle, UNESCO sites of the Atlantic slave trade — the Kakum canopy walkway, and the coastal forts.