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World Service,1 min

Searching for slaver wrecks off the Senegalese coast

Focus on Africa

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Senegalese archaeologist Ibrahima Thiaw and his students are the country's first generation of marine archeaologists.They've been diving off the western tip of Africa where some of the major remains of the transatlantic slave trade are to be found. The 麻豆社's Laeila Adjovi joined them in their search to find the wreckage of ships that sank, carrying millions of African men, women and children to the Americas. (Picture:Senegalese marine archaeologists on a dive boat Credit: 麻豆社)

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