Juffure

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Juffure
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Coordinates: 13 ° 20 ′  N , 16 ° 23 ′  W
Map: Gambia
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Region: North Bank
District: Upper Niumi
Residents: 388 (2013)

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Juffure (spelling variant: Jufureh , Jurufeh , Juffureh or Jufuri ) is a town in the West African state of Gambia .

According to a calculation for 2013, around 388 inhabitants live there, the result of the last published census from 1993 was 311.

geography

The village is located in the North Bank Region district upper niumi the river Gambia about five kilometers from James Iceland with Fort James and about one kilometer from Albreda removed.

Location of the novel Roots

According to Alex Haley's information in his 1976 novel Roots ( roots in the German translation ), Kunta Kinte , one of the characters in the novel, was a historically verifiable person who came from Juffure and was kidnapped by slave traders in 1767 and taken to the then British colony of Maryland had been spent.

Haley himself traveled to the village to do field research in the early 1970s. The results of his research there led him to the assumption that the orally transmitted story of his own family was confirmed and supplemented in the stories of some residents of Juffure. Although a significant number of the people and events associated with Haley and Juffure are not considered to be historically certain , the figure of Kunta Kinte, made famous by the worldwide success of the novel and the television series Roots , plays a considerable role in the life of the place today.

Culture and sights

In order to use the popularity of Kunta Kinte for tourism , a museum was set up in 1996 in the house of Maurel Frères , which deals with the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2003 .

The ruins of San Domingo are east of Juffure.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Juffure on bevoelkerungsstatistik.de (no longer available online, last accessed May 2013)

Web links

Commons : Juffure and Albreda  - collection of images, videos and audio files