Cape Verga

Cape Verga projects from a coast of mangroves and river mouths in Upper Guinea. Baga communities inhabited the coastal islands and grew rice, made salt and collected kola for exchange. Near the cape, the Rio Pongo linked coastal traders with the Fula country inland. Towards the end of the eighteenth century a community of European and Afro-European merchants developed at the river mouth, where commerce in captive people joined older networks of exchange between the coast and interior.