Madina

The Banana Islands lie off the mountainous peninsula of Sierra Leone, separated from the mainland by a narrow channel. Their sheltered anchorages formed part of a chain of coastal trading places stretching north and south of the Sierra Leone estuary. During the eighteenth century British and Afro-European dealers on the islands sold captives to ships engaged in the Atlantic slave trade. The islands were among the smaller stations at which vessels gathered people forcibly taken from communities along the coast and in the interior.

The later city of Freetown lies here.