Harris or Trump – what do the US presidential candidates offer Africa?

Wiping away tears, US Vice-President Kamala Harris walked around Cape Coast Castle on a visit to Ghana last year. The centuries-old fort has a tortured history as a holding prison for slaves before they were forced onto ships to sail to the Americas.

“The horror of what happened here must always be remembered,” Harris said during the emotional tour. “History must be learned.”

Across hundreds of years, African people were kidnapped, tortured, starved and crowded onto ships at Cape Coast Castle for the long and dangerous ocean voyage to the Americas and the Caribbean.

“Because of this history, this continent, of course, has a special significance for me personally as the first black vice-president of the United States of America,” she said.