Juffureh - place in North Bank Division, The Gambia

Juffureh is a small town in the Gambia on the North Bank of the Gambia River, most famous as the reputed origin of Alex Haley's ancestor Kunta Kinte, as described in Haley's novel Roots.

Understand

Get in

The ferry to Barra from Banjul goes about twice an hour and take 40 minutes. Juffureh is a short ride away.

Get around

See

• The Slave Museum, Juffareh. Free
• Slave monument, Juffareh.
• CFAO building, Juffareh.
• Kunta Kinteh Island (James Island). As an important historical site in the West African slave trade, it is now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with Albreda, Juffureh and Fort Bullen. Kunta Kinteh Island is suffering heavy erosion, and is now approximately 1/6 of the size during the time when the British slave-trading fort was active. Ruins of several of the British administrative buildings (including a single cell, apparently used to house the most troublesome captives), a small jetty and a number of skeletal baobab trees remain.
• Fort Jilifree

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Buy

Eat

• Restaurant. Serves mostly chicken and fish with rice. D200

Drink

Sleep

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Go next

• Karang and the Fathala Reserve in Senegal are just north of the North Bank.