Daarnaast is het gebied duidelijk verbonden met het begin en de afschaffing van slavenhandel. Kunta Kinteh Island is a small island in the Gambia River which joins the Atlantic Ocean. Its location in ...

The river is eating up the island of Kunta Kinteh. Its tide is ravishing the fragile banks so that each year this speck of land in the middle of the Gambia River is reduced to a smaller version of ...

Now, the descendants of slaves are urging action to preserve historial sites on Gambia's Kunta Kinteh island. But the island where he and tens of thousands of west African slaves faced the horrors of ...

KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND, Gambia (AFP) — As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in Roots, put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism.

The highlight of a visit to this region is newly named Kunta Kinteh Island. A quick 10-minute boat ride from shore, it sits forlornly in the middle of the Gambia River. Nobody lives here.

Gambia. A visitor peers into a cell on Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly known as James Island. A tourist uses binoculars to glimpse Kunta Kinteh Island, which held slaves for transport to North ...

Kunta Kinteh is said to have been a Mandinka warrior taken from the village of Juffereh in Gambia. St. James Island was a prison/port where many slaves were held before they were transported to ...

More so, the area is the first identified UNESCO World Heritage Site in The Gambia as related to Kunta Kinteh Island and other European settlements as most of them were found around Juffureh/Albreda.

The river is eating up the island of Kunta Kinteh. Its tide is ravishing the fragile banks so that each year this speck of land in the middle of the Gambia River is reduced to a smaller version of ...

Decades of neglect - For Hassoum Ceesay, a historian and official at The Gambia's National Centre ... to undertake a total revamp of Kunta Kinteh island and related sites, which include a colonial ...

Kunta Kinteh Island - As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in "Roots", put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism. But the island where he ...