Rio Nunez Mouth

The Rio Nunez reaches the Atlantic through a coast of mangrove channels and rice fields. Baga and Nalu farmers supplied rice to traders, exchanging it and other local products for goods from the interior. In 1793 the slave-ship captain Samuel Gamble recorded the skill with which Baga farmers managed irrigated fields. Their expertise existed alongside the dangers of the Atlantic slave trade, as raids and the expansion of inland powers brought violence to the rice-growing communities of the coast.