Takaungu Slave Market
About 50 kilometers from Mombasa, shortly before arriving at Kilifi Creek, lies Takaungu, a small fishing town. In days long past, Takaungu boomed as an Arab slave market. Here, galling chains bound captive Africans in an atrocious degradation of human nature.
A deserted, rusty, and scrawny structure—believed to have been constructed in the 14th century remains as a historical derelict of lives trivialized and denied. Slaves who survived starvation and drowning in treacherous seas were ultimately sold for a pittance and doomed to hard labor for the rest of their wretched lives. The Takaungu Slave Market stands as evidence of an evil of colossal magnitude, presided over by sultans along the East African coast.