Apa Lagoon

Apa Lagoon lies behind the shore of the Gold Coast, among the shallow waters that punctuate the coast east of Cape Coast. Coastal communities fished in lagoons and the open sea, drying some of their catch for exchange. Nearby Oguaa was already a place of fishing and trade before European forts rose along the shore. In the seventeenth century the Swedish fort at Cape Coast passed through several hands before the English enlarged it into a castle.