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 ...

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.

Kunta Kinteh Island (formerly James Island) and Related Sites present a testimony to the main periods and facets of the encounter between Africa and Europe along the River Gambia, a continuum ...

The ruins of a former fort and slave station on Kunta Kinteh Island, formally known as James Island, situated in River Gambia. It's now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Ninki Nanka Trail is ...

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 ...

The Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly James Island, is one of the key sites in the history of the British in West Africa. It was the first European foothold in The Gambia and with Cape Coast Castle in ...

Formerly known as Bathurst, beautiful Banjul is the capital city of The Gambia, sitting at the ... pre-slavery times to independence, on Kunta Kinteh Island. Explore caves and prisons where ...

The 61-minute unrated film, which features “Roots” cast member Ben Vereen, chronicles Kinteh’s story and the process of renaming Fort James Island in Gambia to Kunta Kinteh Island ...

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 ...