THE HERITAGE OF SUDUWOL VILLAGE

 

After the Soninkes or the Sarahulles migrated to the Gambia to find peaceful settlement due to unrest in Bundu, in the Gambia the majority of the Sarahulles are found in the Upper River Region,they built heavenly fortified houses in their villages.

During that time it was believed that there was no single village in the district of Kantora except a small Mandinka village called Song Kunda, this village people where the first people to settle in Kantora.

Few years after Sarahulles arrival in the Gambia, Alhagie Mpa Amara Tunkara who was believed as the founder of Suduwol village were later settle in Kantora after the arrival of song Kunda village people. Mpa Amara and his people arrived in the Suduwol and settle in 1853. It was believed that, the first Tribe locally called Qabbila to arrived in the village were the Tunkara Kunda family and Jaguraga Kunda families follow by the Black Smith ‘Taggoh’ followed by the Slaves ‘Kommoh’ Danjo Kunda, Dambelleh Kunda and Camara Kunda family later followed, later followed by the Keita Kunda family then followed by other tribes or ‘ qabbilas’.

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