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SLAVE TRADE REMAINS IN CAMEROON

BIMBIA SLAVE VILLAGE

Cameroon is one of those countries that suffered from the slave trade and the first African country . The Portuguese, one of the European countries that were engaged in the business of buying slaves, ivory and other items from Africa, reportedly reached the Cameroonian coast by 1472. From the Wouri Estuary where they landed and established contacts with the local coastal chiefs soon stretched their business contacts to Bimbia. By dint of its coastal location, Bimbia suddenly grew to become a significant trade port for slaves bound for plantations in the Americas and neighbouring islands of Tome, Principe, Fernando Po, today Equatorial Guinea. And Bimbia is the route through which very many Cameroonians, in the 1500s, 1600s and 1700s, passed through to reach plantations aboard.