Data Courtesy of Amadu Massally, Author of The Gullah Geechee Saga: Through African Eyes The image above is a historical diagram of a cross section of the slave ship Brookes,
The Food So, it’s been a few weeks since I returned from Africa, and of course, people have been asking me about my trip and want to see my pictures.
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Kenya Day 6 So it’s 4am in the morning and I am on the way to climb into a hot air balloon. Just like in the movie Jurassic Park, the
While in Ghana, one of the local kings gave me a new African name during a naming ceremony.
By Luana M. Graves Sellars African Name – Nana Nyarkoa Well, it’s August 15th and I’m back in the states after 4 weeks of being away and semi-awake. Ghana is
A large part of my conversation with Luana focuses on a concept called heirs property, a form of land ownership that occurs when someone dies without a will, leaving heirs without a clear title to the property. Without definitive proof of land ownership, heirs property owners can’t get home improvement loans, farm loans, and certain kinds of insurance, among a host of other things.
Plantations visually, tend to be strikingly beautiful places that also embody and represent violence, pain and suffering.
When we think about slavery, we don’t usually consider the day to day or the gory details. The general knowledge of captivity, hard labor and cruelty are the basics, but for the most part, the actual experience that enslaved people went through are forgotten. Slavery inflicted generational trauma in so many different ways; fear, uncertainty, humiliation and mental and physical stressors.
