Juffureh & Albreda
Juffureh / Albreda
Two villages across from Kunta Kinteh Island, where Roots author Alex Haley traced his ancestry. Home to a slave trade museum and the Freedom Flagpole.
Juffureh is famous through American writer Alex Haley's novel Roots, in which the ancestor Kunta Kinteh comes from this village. Visitors can call on descendants of the Kinte family. Next door, Albreda was once a French trading post. Its colonial-era warehouse has been turned into the Slave Trade Museum, which tells the story of the transatlantic slave trade. By the river stands the Freedom Flagpole, said to grant freedom to anyone who touches it. Both villages are part of the World Heritage site, and visitors pay entry fees for the villages and the museum. Villagers often offer guided tours and ask for donations, and these are entirely up to you.
Opening hours
Museum approx. 9:00–17:00