Kantora District

it is the easternmost district of the country The name derives from the Mandinka phrase "kana-ntoro," meaning "do not trouble me," referring to the disputes that Tiramakhan Traore's expedition struggled with there.

They founded the village of Songkunda, meaning "place of agreement," to commemorate the re-establishment of peace.

[1] The name of the area appears in written records as early as the 1456 voyage of Diego Gomes.

[3] In particular, Duarte Pacheco Pereira noted in 1506 that Sutuco on the north bank of the river was the main trading center of Kantora.

[4] By the 1621 visit of Richard Jobson, however, the north bank was under the control of the King of Wuli.