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Ouidah Heritage Tour

Places

Tree of Forgetfulness

According to tradition, captives were made to walk around it to forget their origins.

  • Stop 2 on the Slave Route
  • Memory

Tradition holds that captives were forced to walk around this tree: the ritual was meant to make them forget their land, their names and their families before departure.

The commemorative tree that stands here today was replanted in 1992.