Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TENDABA, GAMBIA — If Kunta Kinte could see the Gambia River, he wouldn’t believe it. Picture a white yacht flying a blue and white Greek flag. Sitting on the ...

Heading east inland from the palm-backed coast, the Gambia River meanders through a largely agrarian society. Farmers here grow peanuts for both export and local consumption. Amid the mangrove swamps, ...

Jason Florio’s travels around the Republic of the Gambia read like tales of adventure from centuries past. Florio, along with his wife, Helen Jones-Florio, had already traveled extensively in the West ...

"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffere, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte." - Roots, Alex Haley TENDABA, ...

When the Lady Chilel listed to port in 1984, her Glaswegian hull groaning with the realisation she faced a tropical watery grave, West Africa’s most navigable waterway became a backwater, the sole ...

The presidents of Senegal and The Gambia on Monday inaugurated the Senegambia bridge to facilitate trade and travel in West Africa after decades of delays. The bridge located on Gambian territory is ...

The incongruous sight is due to a one-of-a-kind cruise, Rivers of West Africa. It began Dec. 31 through a Greek small-ship line, Variety (varietycruises.com, 1-800-319-7776). The cruise originates in ...

The House of Slaves museum and memorial site on Goree Island off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. The building was the largest slave-trade center during the transatlantic slave trade and now serves as a ...