The Gwollu Defence Wall is a historic wall in the

Upper West Region The Upper West Region of Ghana is located in the north-western corner of Ghana and is bordered by Upper East Region to the east, Northern Region (Ghana), Northern Region to the south, and Burkina Faso to the west and north. The Upper West regional ...

of Ghana. The wall is located near the Burkina Faso-Mali border. It was built as a defense against slave traders.

History

The Gwollu Defence Wall was built in the 19th century by Gwollu Koro Limann. The wall is one of many relics of the slave trade. The region was marked by violent raids led by warlords Babatu and Samori. To prevent these attacks, two walls were built. One was to protect homes in the community, while the other encircled farms and bodies of water. It is believed that construction took about 10–25 years each, but neither was completed. The walls were abandoned when the

Atlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of Slavery in Africa, enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Pass ...

was abolished, although local slave traders were still a problem. Only the portion that surrounds Gwollu remains.

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