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The Director-General of UNESCO, Ms. Audrey Azoulay, as part of her visit to Ghana to commemorate the Accra World book Capital on April 24, 2023, visited the , located in Accra. The Ussher Fort is one of the 28 components of one of the World Heritage site ‘’ in Ghana, recognized and listed by UNESCO. The Director-General visited the site in the company of the Country Representative of UNESCO to Ghana, the Deputy Minister of Education, Ambassador of Ghana to France, Portugal, and representatives of the Ghana Commission for UNESCO. 

The Ussher Fort, from its origins as a trading post, to its use as a slave dungeon, police post, prison, military detention facility, and court-martial unit, has played a significant role in the region's past. In 2005, it served as a refugee camp for Liberians and South Sudanese. Most recently, it housed the Museum of Slavery, which was temporarily closed in 2014. The National Museum established the Ussher Fort Specialized Museum in response to the fort's historical significance in the organized enslavement and transport of people across the Atlantic. Created in 2007, it was the first specialized national museum on the history of enslaved people.

The Director-General climaxed the activities in commemoration of the Accra World Book Capital with a visit to Noldor Resident: a contemporary African art museum for both budding and highly skilled artists. Received by the Director of the museum, Ms. Audery Azoulay was taken on a tour of the various galleries in the space.

World Heritage Sites

A World Heritage Site is a building or region that has legal protection under a global agreement overseen by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UNESCO names places as world heritage sites when they are considered to be of significant cultural, historical, scientific, or other value. The sites, according to the assessment, contain "cultural and natural heritage from all over the world that is regarded as being of outstanding value to humanity."

A World Heritage Site must be a distinctive landmark that is geographically and historically recognized and has unique cultural or physical significance in order to be chosen. Examples of World Heritage Sites include historical or ancient ruins, buildings, towns, deserts, islands, lakes, monuments, mountains, or wilderness regions. A World Heritage Site may represent a significant human achievement and serve as documentation of the evolution of human thought on the planet, or it may just be a stunning natural setting.