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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 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 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.

Loyola University presents Kunta Kinteh Island: Coming Home Without Shackles tonight. Ben Vereen stars in the film and will attend the screening. Vereen starred as Chicken George in the 1977 ...

KUNTA KINTEH ISLAND, Gambia, Aug 29 (Reuters) - When Gambian boat captain Abdoulie Jabang ferries visitors to Kunta Kinteh island he tells them that the waves lapping the shores of the former ...

The famous James Island has been renamed Kunta Kinteh Island. The decision to rename the island, which has great significance in our history, indeed shows that organisers of the Roots Festival are ...

ATLANTA — The visuals and emotions from Alvin Ross’ Kunta Kinteh Island documentary, which details the legacy of arguably history’s most famous slave ever, exploded off the screen and ...

KING 5 News sat down with Lamin Jatta, the ninth descendant of Kunta Kinteh, to talk about a new documentary called Kunta Kinteh Island directed by Elvin Ross. Jatta was in Tacoma Friday to ...

James Island, which was a holding cell for slaves during the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, to Kunta Kinteh Island- after one of The Gambia's most well-renowned sons. It shares the points of view of ...

Kunta Kinteh – the Mandinka man immortalised in Alex Haley's book (and, later, the television miniseries) Roots – was held here, within view of the village where he was born. The island was ...