Kogin Pongo ko Rio Pongo kogi ne da ke kwarara zuwa Tekun Atlantika kusa da Boffa, na kasar Guinea. Tushensa yana cikin Fouta Djallon.[1] Hakanan an san yankin da ake kira "Pongoland" ko "Kasar Bongo".[2] Tun daga shekarar 1992 aka keɓance mashigar.

Kogin Pongo
General information
Height above mean sea level (en) Fassara 2 m
Labarin ƙasa
Map
Tsarin Daidaiton Labarin Kasa 10°03′N 14°04′W / 10.05°N 14.07°W / 10.05; -14.07
Kasa Gine
Territory Gine
Taswirar Kogin Pongo

Rio Pongo ya zama yanki mai muhimmanci don kafa masana'antu a cikin kasuwancin bayin transatlantic.[3] Sir George Collier ya lissafa sunaye 76 na iyalai da suka yi fataucin bayi a 1820.[4] Ya kasance wakilin Westan Burtaniya na Yammacin Afirka tsakanin 1818 da 1821 kuma saboda haka ya shirya sintiri a kan kogin Pongo da sauran yankunan da ke kewaye da shi.

A cikin adabi

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Wani ɓangare na mãkircin littafin tarihin Anthony Adverse - kuma fim ɗin da aka yi shi - an saita shi a kan Kogin Pongo, a cikin shekarun ƙarshe na ƙarni na 18 da farkon shekarun 19. Fitaccen jarumin littafin - saurayi mai kwazo da hazaka - ya zo daga kasar Cuba kuma a cikin ɗan gajeren lokaci ya mallaki cinikin bayi a bakin kogin. Yana tara dukiya mai tarin yawa, amma a farashin ƙara lalacewa. A ƙarshe da yake ba shi da lafiya ta hanyar bautar, ya tashi zuwa wasu abubuwan da ke faruwa a wasu nahiyoyi.

Manazarta

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  1. "Africans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century". Black Past.Org. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  2. See Samuel Crighton's Baptismal entry in the All Saints, Poplar, parish register of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets referring to the baptism of Samuel Crighton, son of William Fernandez, a local Luso-African King.
  3. Mouser, Bruce L. (1973). "Trade, Coasters and conflict in the Rio Pongo from 1790 to 1808". The Journal of African History. 14 (1): 45–64. doi:10.1017/s0021853700012160. JSTOR 180776.
  4. Mouser, Bruce L. (2016). "Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An Historical and Micro Perspective". In Knörr, Jacqueline; Kohl, Christoph (eds.). The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective. New York: Berghahn Books. pp. 21–39. Retrieved 15 October 2016.