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A group of us from Leeds University visited Ida's home in March this year and learned how to cook fish yassa.  It was one of the best days we have ever had!

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Juffure is an unremarkable fishing village of thatched mud-brick huts just a short distance inland from the banks of the River Gambia.

Yet it is a village that has international reknown as it is to Juffure that Alex Haley traced his ancestral roots and discovered that it was from here that his great-great-grandfather had been abducted into slavery in the 18th century. As such the village has a strange mix of the quotidian and the extraordinary and is well worth a visit to get a sense of the history of slavery at one of its many wellsprings. There are short talks in the village and you can visit the museum, which is out of the village towards Albreda.

You can reach the village easily enough – either on the Roots excursion or via your own steam: simply catch the ferry across to Barra and you can hire a taxi from there. Juffure is about 25km upriver.

 
 
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