There is a slave trade ports or route at Bimbia, before transporting them to the West Indies or Americas they were been chained by their master, they lose their identity, culture, dignity and rights. The site is there to refresh the memories for the blacks.

Visit Bimbia slave trade MARKETS AND PORTS

The former Port of Embarkation of Bimbia and Nicholls Island

Bimbia is an ancient port that played a major role in the transatlantic trade in the Gulf of Guinea between the 17th and 19th centuries. The site is located on the Atlantic coast, more than ten kilometres south-east of the present-day town of Limbé, in the Limbé III district. European slave traders would have decided during the 17th century to build an outpost there to facilitate the trade and surveillance of slaves. The former slave trade port was linked in its activities to a small island located about 100 metres offshore, called Nicholls Island, a mooring site for slave ships. From there, the link with Bimbia was made by pirogue. This island would have served as a port of embarkation for ships and as a place of confinement for rebel captives.
The site has probably undergone different phases of exploitation over the centuries. It is contemporary with the ports of Douala and Rio del Rey. It emerged after the fall of the latter. Today, there are numerous architectural ruins linked to the recent phase of its development, probably as a farm where slave labour was probably used.
The work of Dr. Lisa AUBREY has made it possible to trace more than 166 slave ships that embarked slaves on the Cameroonian coast between the 17th and 19th centuries. The onomastic of the logbooks of these slave ships indicates that the majority of the captives came from the interior of the continent. Historians have been able to reconstruct routes from the interior markets to slave ports such as Bimbia, Wouri and Rio del Rey. These slave trade centres include: Kom, Mankon, Bali, Tinto, Fontem, Bamendjinda, Kamna, Batcham, Bandjoun, Foumban, Bana, Yabassi, etc. A total of about 2.5 million slaves were sold according to J.D. Fage. The other associated sites are mostly chiefdoms.