Guinea

Guinea Guinea is one of the most diverse and, and potentially one of the most successful, countries located within Africa. It is located on the western edge of the continent, bordered principally by Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Mali. Its history is fairly turbulent by western standards, but when compared with its neighbors, it has been a relatively peaceful nation. In its earliest days, it was considered a section of Ghana, and then part of the Mali Empire. But beginning in the mid 1400’s, European explorers, most notably the Portuguese, began to travel to Africa’s western coast and one of the frequent ports lay in what is now Guinea. Soon, French, British and the Portuguese all were visiting the region in search of Africa’s most in demand supply at the time, slaves. The European slave traders took a large portion of their victims from general geographical region that Guinea now lays within, in fact one of the principal slave trading stations was located in the port city of Fida. It is estimated that over 400,000 slaves taken from their land came from what is now Guinea, most bound for Brazil or conquered nations within the Spanish Empire. But by the end of guinea, nation, one, nations, french, within, western, slave, population, much, mineral, military, countries, being, began, , years, wealth, toure, time, seems, region, political, peaceful, over, now, national, major, made, located, itself, government, european, empire, cultural, country