Malemba

Malemba, also called Malembo, was a trading port on the Loango coast north of the Congo estuary. It lay in the country of Kakongo, whose rulers and merchants dealt with ships arriving from across the Atlantic. Along with Loango and Cabinda, Malemba became a major outlet for the trade in enslaved people during the eighteenth century. African coastal powers defended their commercial independence as Portuguese and French interests competed for control of the trade.