Jan Janbureh Camp- The Gambia West Africa 1989

Описание: AKA Jang Jangbureh Camp. Just across from the town of Georgetown on MacCarthy Island upriver in The Gambia West Africa is a tourist camp that at the time was new. A great place to escape to, yet they didn't have many amenities at the time it was very crude. Georgetown was made famous by way of Alex Haley's book "Roots" and at the time of this video was very underdeveloped, yet had immense cultural significance. Wiki info: MacCarthy Island, then known as Lemain Island, was purchased by the British captain Alexander Grant in 1823 in exchange for annual payments to Kolli Camara, the king of Lower Niani. It was intended as a settlement for freed slaves. A dispute ensued when the colonists demanded labor from Niani, but the ruling Kamara clan sent an army instead, forcing the British to take refuge in their new fort. A counterattack on the Niani capital of Ndougousine failed, with the Mandinka capturing two cannons, but the island remained in British hands.

By the 1840s the trading post was doing steady business in hides, wax, and ivory; it was the furthest upriver post the colonial administration controlled. In 1880 the town had a population of 1263, of whom only one was a European. Today it is the second largest city in the Gambia with a population of over 100,000 inhabitants. Times have surely changed since 1989 when it was a very small town.