Qualla: Pongo River (Guinea) https://qualla.com/pongo-river-guinea en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Pongo River (Guinea) https://qualla.com/pongo-river-guinea Pongo River (Guinea): Introduction https://qualla.com/pongo-river-guinea/ Today the Rio Pongo is a hush of mangroves and tidal creeks on the coast of Guinea, a protected wetland where herons stalk the mud and fishing boats slip between green walls of root and leaf. For roughly a century, though, this estuary was something else entirely. From the late 1700s into the 1800s, the Pongo was one of the most active slave-trading rivers in West Africa, a place where men, women, and children captured inland were funnelled to the coast and loaded onto ships bound across the Atlantic. The calm of the river now sits over one of the harshest chapters in the region's history.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/v/c/pongo-river-guinea-wp/e9vc-pongo-river-guinea-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pongo River (Guinea): The Captives and the Coast https://qualla.com/pongo-river-guinea/ The cruelty of the Rio Pongo was measured in human lives. Caravans came down from the interior, many carrying people seized in the wars around the Fouta Djallon highlands, and at the river's trading posts those people were bought, held, and sold. They had names, families, and hom...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/v/c/pongo-river-guinea-wp/e9vc-pongo-river-guinea-the-trading-dynasties.mp3 0:06 3 full Pongo River (Guinea): The Squadron and the Reckoning https://qualla.com/pongo-river-guinea/ As Britain turned against the trade it had once led, the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron began hunting slavers along this coast. Sir George Collier commanded the squadron from 1818 to 1821 and sent anti-slaving patrols up the Pongo and its neighbouring rivers. In 1820 he compil...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/9/v/c/pongo-river-guinea-wp/e9vc-pongo-river-guinea-the-squadron-and-the-reckoning.mp3 0:06 4 full Pongo River (Guinea): What the River Holds Now https://qualla.com/pongo-river-guinea/ The Pongo rises in the green heights of the Fouta Djallon and runs down to meet the Atlantic near Boffa, and the country around it was long called Pongoland. In 1992 the estuary was named a Ramsar wetland of international importance, recognised for the mangroves and birdlife that...

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