Living your very own Indiana Jones adventure isn’t the only attraction luring visitors to Ghana’s Kakum National Park

A jewel of the Ghanaian coastline, the tiny fishing village of Elmina belies a dark and tragic past which still scars a nation, writes Claire Chaffey.

When my housemate came home from work with a human tooth lodged in the sole of her shoe, it confirmed what I had come to know in my time as a volunteer in Accra, Ghana: I definitely wasn’t in Kansas anymore.