Jufureh

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

According to a calculation for 2013 there live about 388 inhabitants, the result of the last published census in 1993 amounted to 311

Geography

The place is located in the North Bank Region District Upper Niumi the Gambia River about five miles from James Iceland with Fort James, and about one kilometer from Albreda.

Setting for the novel Roots

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

Haley had traveled in the early 1970s even to field research in the village. The results of his research there led him to believe that the oral history of his own family was Juffures confirm and complement in the stories of several inhabitants. Although a substantial part of are not secured by Haley Juffure with connected persons and events as historical, passed through the worldwide success of the novel and the TV series Roots wide attention Kunta Kinte figure of plays a significant role in today's life of the town.

Culture and sights

To use the Kunta Kinte awareness of tourists, too, in 1996, a museum was set up in the house of Maurel Frères, which deals with the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. The house is on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2003.

The ruins of San Domingo are located east of Juffure.