Sherbro (island)
| Sherbro (island) | ||
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 7 ° 31 ′ N , 12 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| length | 52.4 km | |
| width | 18 km | |
| surface | 600 km² | |
| Residents | 44.991 (2008) 75 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Bonthe | |
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The island of Sherbro ( English Sherbro (Island) ), also called Bonthe , is located off the coast of the West African Sierra Leone in the Atlantic . The main town of the island is Bonthe with about 9700 inhabitants at the eastern end of the island, which is also the main town of the Bonthe district of the same name .
The island, as Sherbro Island City , is to be developed sustainably since 2019. To this end, the Sierra Leone government has entered into a partnership with Sherbro Alliance Partners . The actor Idris Elba is one of its initiators .
history
The original residents of Sherbro are the Bullom-Sherbro . Between the rivers Sherbo and Mano (also Mannah), Gallinas or the Galinhas territory , with Fort Lomboko, was a base for the slave trade until the early 19th century . Joseph Denman (1810–1874), a captain in the Royal Navy , signed a contract with King Harry Tucker, the community leader of the Gallinas slave assembly center, in 1840 to stop the slave trade. When a son of the community leader arrested a washerwoman from Sierra Leone and a British citizen, Captain Henry Worsley Hill, the eldest son of Rear Admiral Henry Hill of Romsey (1772–1849) with the HM frigate Saracen carried out a sea blockade of Gallinas lasting several months . On landing to take in fresh water , Hill realized that the slaves had freed themselves and put the slave-factory manager , Mr. François, in irons. Hill suggested that the barracoons (slave quarters ) be burned down. 841 slaves were released, the slave traders were given free travel to Sierra Leone. The Spanish relator Tomas Rodriguez Buron sued Denman in a British court for damages for the occupation of Gallinas . The lawsuit was dismissed in 1848. In the early 19th century there was a British post here to combat the Atlantic slave trade . From 1815, former slaves were settled, and in 1861 the Freetown colony took over the island from the Bullom-Sherbro.
administration
Two of the district's eleven chiefdoms are located on Sherbro : Dema (main town Tissana) and Sittia (main town Yonni), as well as the Bonthe Rural District with the city of Bonthe.
geography
Sherbro is separated from mainland Africa to the north by the Sherbro River and to the east by Sherbro Strait . It is 52 km long, 18 km wide and has an area of around 600 km². The Cape St. Ann is located on the west end to the east is the island's main village and port Bonthe. Immediately west of the island are the Turtle Islands at a distance of between one and 17 kilometers, which practically form the western extension of the island. The island is a breeding ground for sea turtles .
economy
The main economic activities are wet rice cultivation, fishing and tourism - the island has 105 km of tropical beaches. The Sierra Leone government wants to promote tourism on Sherbro.
On the island is the (as of December 2018) unused Sherbro airfield .
literature
- TJ Alldridge: The Sherbro and its Hinterland , Macmillan & Co, London 1901.
Individual evidence
- ↑ bevölkerungsstatistik.de (2006)
- ^ The Government of Sierra Leone and Sherbro Alliance Partners forge alliance to deliver economic prosperity to Sherbro Island. State House Sierra Leone, September 30, 2019.
- ↑ Pedro de Zulueta, William Brodie Gurn, Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, Jun: on a charge of slave trading , under the 5 Gorg IV, CAP. 113 On Friday the 27th, Saturday the 28th, and Monday the 30th of October 1843, p. 103.
- ^ Pedro de Zulueta, William Brodie Gurn: p. 80
- ↑ HMS Saracen, 1831–1862 http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/S/04126.html
- ↑ Royal Navy and the Slave Trade Burning the Barracoons ( Memento of September 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sierra Leone Web: The 149 Chiefdoms of Sierra Leone ( Memento of August 18, 2000 in the Internet Archive )