Prof Engmann, Director of the Christiansborg Archaeological Heritage Project (CAHP) in Ghana, traces her ancestry to the Danish Governor, Cal Gustav Engmann, who worked and lived in the Christiansborg Castle (1752-1757) to champion the sale of captive Africans.
The governor’s name and when he worked and lived in the castle has been written on a water cistern there.
“As I grew up as a child, the belief that my family descended from a Danish Christian missionary stationed in Ghana was there’’, Professor Engmann said. “This illusion came to an end several years ago when, as a graduate student, I went to visit my aunt in Accra, Ghana. As we shared some spicy plantain fritters called in Ga language (tatale), she told me, ‘Go to “The Castle” and see your name inscribed on a wall’, she recalled.
Source: Daily Graphic Tuesday September 17, 2024
