Shenge

Shenge (also spelled Shengge[1]) is a coastal fishing town along the Atlantic Ocean in Moyamba District, Southern Province, Sierra Leone.

The dense coastal jungle has prevented development of a good road network, and the Shenge is still most easily reached by boat.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, there were marriages between English traders of the Royal African Company and Sherbro women.

[citation needed] Rufus Clark, a wealthy American potato farmer who had been converted at a United Brethren revival in Denver, sponsored the establishment of a theological school named for him in Shenge.

[1] On September 9, 2009 a coastal boat or pampa was travelling a sea route of about 65 km (40 mi) along the coast from Shenge to the Western Area town of Tombo near Freetown with at least 246 passengers on board, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays.

President Ernest Bai Koroma declared Monday 14 September 2009 as a day of national mourning for the victims of the boat accident.