Shenge

Shenge stands on the mainland shore opposite Sherbro Island, among the estuaries and mangrove-lined channels of the Sierra Leone coast. This is part of the homeland of the Sherbro people, also known as the southern Bullom. Fishing and rice cultivation have supported communities along these tidal waters. The sheltered waterways linked settlements on the mainland and islands and formed part of the coastal routes used by African and European traders during the Atlantic slave trade.