The “One Journey” Symposium is a series of global dialogues among people of African descent in Africa and the African Diaspora whose journeys collectively reflect the black historical experience.
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Featuring Speakers and Panelists in Maryland, South Carolina, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Africa, this 1st One Journey Symposium highlights different perspectives and contributions of the journey and legacies of black Settlers and the founding of Historic Freetown 230 years ago in 1792.
Dr. Afua Cooper (Historian & Professor, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Dr. Emory Campbell (Former Director of Penn Center, South Carolina)
Dr. Nemata Blyden (Historian & Professor, George Washington University, Washington D.C.)
Amadu Massally (CEO & Founder, Fambul Tik, Heritage Company)
Karen Hudson (Principal, Auburn Drive High School, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Dr. Ismail Rashid (Historian & Professor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York)
Victoria Smalls (Executive Director, Gullah Geechee Cultural, Heritage Corridor, South Carolina)
Ing. Melbourne Garber (Engineer & Historian, Krio Descendants Yunion)
Eyamide Lewis-Coker (President, Creole Heritage Association, California)
Dr. Princess Dougan (President, Krio Descendants Union, Global)
Lives in West African Communities before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Prof. Ismail Rashid
Dr. Nemata Blyden
Melbourne Garber
Dr. Sylvia King
African American Communities the Lower Chesapeake and Low country of the Carolinas for 400 years
Dr. Emory Campbell
Victoria Smalls
Anita Singleton-Prather
Amadu Massally
Warren Relaford
Senator Anastasia Pittman
Windy Goodloe
Livecast by the Mayor of Freetown
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyer
Exodus of Free Blacks and Black Loyalists from the United States to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Founding of Freetown in 1792
Dr. Afua Cooper
Karen Hudson and Students
Kathrin Winkler
Carol Millet
Founding Settlers of Freetown; from Africa, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, the Caribbean, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
Kelly Davis
Dr. Nemata Blyden
Ralph Thomas
Freetown and its Descendant Communities
Eyamide Lewis-Coker
Dr. Princess Dougan
This 1st Symposium was organized by Adrian Q. Labor & Akindele T.M. Decker of African Curator, Amadu Massally & Aminata Kondeh of Fambul Tik, Barbara Morgan of Zion 230, Adesina During of KDU-Global, in partnership with the Freetown City Council and the Mayor of Freetown.
