[1][2] It is located in the Central Region of Ghana, forty (40) kilometers along the Cape Coast-Kumasi highway.

[1] In 1998, Assin Manso was re-inscribed onto the map of African-diasporic historical imagination through the reburial of two slave ancestors (one from Jamaica, one from the United States) as part of an Emancipation Day ceremony.

[7] At the site, one will observe an Ancestral Graveyard (the Memorial Wall of Return) where most Africans write their names as a way of indicating the discovery of their roots.

[3] As part of the experience, tourists remove their shoes and walk barefoot down a path to the muddy river that runs through a bamboo grove where they place their hands in the water, and offer prayers in thanks for the opportunity to return.

[7] The site is similar to others in the West African sub region like the Goree Island of Senegal, Badagry in Nigeria among others.