Fanta Goes to Gorée Island, Senegal
Fanta here.
Twenty minutes by ferry from Dakar, Gorée Island feels like another world. There are no cars, just narrow sandy streets, buildings painted coral, ochre, and red, and the Atlantic at the end of nearly every lane.
Today Gorée is home to families, schools, shops, museums, and artists. Bougainvillea spills over courtyard walls, and the noise of the city fades across the water.
Gorée also holds one of the heaviest histories in Africa. For centuries it changed hands among European colonial powers and became tied to the Atlantic slave trade and the generations of suffering it caused.
The House of Slaves and the island’s other historic sites preserve that history, and Gorée is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a place of remembrance for people from Africa and around the world.
Here, that history lives alongside the people who call the island home. Gorée stays with you long after the ferry carries you back to Dakar.
