An advertising brochure from 1970 reappears to recall the cruise trips from the Canary Islands to the West African coast. Published in the Costa Canaria magazine, it promoted routes linking Las Palmas and Santa Cruz with Banjul, Villa Cisneros and Dakar.
On board the ship Jedintsvo, those itineraries were an invitation to discover neighbouring markets, landscapes and cultures, reflecting the historical closeness between the Canary Islands and the African continent. Its pages evoke a time when the ocean did not separate, but brought people together.
The recovery of this material rescues the memory of a geographical and emotional union. The islands, part of the African continental shelf, have always looked towards this shared horizon.
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