Janjanbureh or Jangjangbureh is a town, founded in 1823, on Janjanbureh Island in the Gambia River
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27/09/2024
World Tourism Day Theme : "Tourism and Peace ". As we celebrate world Tourism Day , we continue to pray for continued peace in the world . Our industry can only prevail if we have peace in our respective destinations . May Allah bring unity and peace to our nation and the entire world . Happy world tourism day 27th September ..
15/08/2024
Janjanbureh Kankurang Festival organizing Committee meets GTBoard Management to discussed further partnership and resource mobilisation for the upcoming Festival scheduled for the 24-26th of January 2025:
Director General of the Gambia Tourism Abubacarr Camara. In his speech, he appreciated the recognition given by the Kankurang Festival for the valuable contribution they made during the last year’s festival.
Furthermore, DG Camara also highlighted the need and importance of tourism in the promotion of destination Gambia, he also emphasised things such as product development. He suggested things such as branding and close collaboration to ensure the effective functioning of the Festival. He reassured of their continued support of the Janjanbureh Kankurang Festival.
Recommendations were made including fencing the place and creating other activities to generate income during the festival.
Responding to some of the issues raised during the discussion, Muhammed Saidykhan the Chairman of the organizing committee, first thanked GTBoard for being one of our loyal partners, he praised them again for the timely intervention in the 7th edition. Mr Saidykhan also points out how we intend to fence the Tiyansita, add other activities, and registering the Kankurang image as an intellectual property rights.
See you all in January
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30/12/2023
Happiest birthday to Jalamang Danso one of our brilliant guide in janjanbureh, we will continue to celebrate you always. Thanks for putting smiles on the faces of our visitors.
28/10/2023
The second Team CBT Gambia are finally in Guinea-Bissau.
Familiarizing the second team to the villages for another two weeks to continue the work where we stop. Bubaque Island have lots to offer to see and do in the villages in Bubaque island.
Many thanks to fredric for having this trust and confidence in us to develop CBT with the community members and i can’t wait to come back and see the end products.
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12/10/2023
Circumcision and Initiation ceremony in Janjanbureh.
09/10/2023
Community based tourism ( CBT ) program are based on specific aspects of local life that local community members feel proud and confident to share with visitors; and that tour operators ( or other business partners ) feel confident to offer their clients. Local people are train to develop these potential into enjoyable, well organized services and experiences.
Book and experience this wonderful trail to Jamali or Tabanani village and you’ll never forget the experience with the villagers.
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Circumcision and Initiation ceremony in Janjanbureh.
Welcoming song of Jamali village
Aayo nyelen en galama
Come cook and taste delicious grandma pumpkin pudding at tabanani village.
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Janjanbureh is the Place to be for your holiday and if you come to The Gambia you don’t visit janjanbureh am sorry you don’t enjoy The Gambia as you should do for your holiday.
Happy couple heading to Jamali with the Jamali Ferrari the horse cart with a smart young girl as the driver to Jamali.
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Janjanbureh Heaven of The Gambia
If you want an adventure, you want to taste or smell new things, Hand on experience.
Janjanbureh is a hidden island waiting you to explore and we have lots of varieties of activities so you will not run out of things to do.
You will find yourself always wanting to come back for more
Book with janjanbureh tourist information center and we are located at janjanbureh youth center.
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As the janjanbureh kankurang festival is approaching, we want to remind you all to start planning for the coming festival it will be boom as it’s the best festival in The Gambia that attracts lots of visitors to the island and it always became memorable for you in life and you want to repeat it again and again.
Don’t allow to be told:-)
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Great history from great people that made Janjanbureh so unique!!!
Janjanbureh Island, and Janjanbureh Town, are in the Central River Region of The Gambia, 300km upstream from the Banjul capital. The former British colonial settlement was founded in 1823, when king of Lower Niani, Kolli Camara, ceded the island to Britain. It is the headquarters of the Central River Region, and one of the eight Local Government Areas, with an estimated population of 3,600. It was formerly known as Lemaine, and then re-named MacCarthy Island (after Sir Charles MacCarthy), with a mud brick Fort George (Georgetown).
It got its new name in 1995, and is sometimes referred to by its colonial name of McCarthy, it is 20 square kilometres in area, 10 km long, and 1.5 km wide. The north of the island is linked to the mainland at Lamin Koto village terminal by a vehicle and passenger ferry service, while the south is linked by a 100m span vehicle and passenger bridge, opened in July 2010, which connects the settlement to the South Bank Road via Sankulay K***a village.
This is a planned port town, formerly known as Georgetown, and lies on the north side of the isle. It has a ferry terminal crossing, a post office, a Methodist Church opened in 1835 (claimed to be the oldest Methodist Church in sub-Saharan Africa), a primary school, police station, a town produce market, a bush taxi rank, a prison, a Gamtel office, the Commissioner's Officers' Residence, the co-ed Armitage High School, and a number of colonial buildings dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. The town is mainly used as a collection point for groundnuts and rice which has been harvested by the local farmers and in outlying areas. It is sometimes referred to as the Gambia's 'second city' and is still an important trading and administrative centre of the Central River Region.
The British used the settlement as a base for commercial trading, missionary work, and agriculture and for protecting its traders, and the upper navigable reaches of the river, against illegal slave traders. The first British settlers were a few merchants from Bathurst, a detachment of soldiers from the West Indian Regiment who were stationed on the north of Janjanbureh, who built a mud-earth works garrison and Christened it Fort George, and a number of Wesleyan missionaries who established the Wesleyan Mission (Methodist Church), begun as a station in 1824 under John Morgan, and finally built in 1835. These first settlers proceeded to build Georgetown's warehouses, stores, quays, and dealt in iron products, fabrics, rifles, and palm oil. Later Fort Campbell was built on the eastern end of the territory. Discharged solders from the coast and the Kombos helped swell the small population. In 1832 two hundred Aku (Creole) freed slaves from Freetown arrived. A good number of them were skilled craftsmen and unskilled workers, and they assisted in developing the island's farming potential. They took full advantage of the first class mission schools in the area. Out of the mission schools sprung up the Chiefs' School, reserved for the seyfolus' sons. This was rebuilt, and opened in 1927, and renamed Armitage High School, which became a prestigious boarding school for the sons of the Gambian elite.
The 1860s witnessed an influx of more refugees fleeing from the Soninke-Marabout wars being waged on the mainland. In the 1920s Cherno Kaddy Baldeh, the king of Fulladu West recognised the need for a bridge to link his district to MacCarthy Island, and benefit from the booming trade in groundnuts. He used forced labour, local wood and other materials to build a floating log-bridge, which allowed the movement of groundnuts from his district, across the Sankulay K***a River, to groundnut buying depots in Georgetown from 1925 to 1931.
In the 1930s the freighting and trading of groundnuts between the upriver regions and Kombo increased, Georgetown was the centre of this activity, its local economy growing strongly. After Banjul, it had now become The Gambia's second town, and an administrative base for the British Protectorate. Since 1965 Georgetown's economic glory has been on the decline, exacerbated by the construction of the South Bank Road in the 1970s, and the termination of the riverboat service.
The Akus were early settlers on this island and they were very prominent here. When the slave trade was abolished in 1807 the British chose the island for the freed slaves to resettled, when they saw this island they felt in love with it. And after that the island became a trading post with the overseeing king based in Jamali. Janjan and Bureh used to cross over here for farming, after that Akus start coming gradually and were settled at the far end of the island, but later they cannot resist the local diseases like cholera and they started dying. After that the few remaining came to found the new settlement of Janjangbureh.
