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, Texas, London, Atlanta, New York, and Africa, this 2nd One Journey Symposium highlights different perspectives and contributions of the journey and legacies of black Settlers and the founding of Historic Province of Freedom 235 years ago in 1787.
Iyamide Thomas (Curator & Historian)
Michael Siva (Historian)
Amadu Massally (CEO & Founder, Fambul Tik, Heritage Company)
Gabriel Greaves (Historian & Professor)
Dr. Ismail Rashid (Historian & Professor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York)
Akindele Decker (Curator, Writer, Co-Founder African Curator)
Adrian Labor (Engineer, Co-Founder African Curator)
Welcome & Introduction
Akindele Decker
Adrian Q. Labor
A Sierra Leonean Historian’s view of early Sierra Leone Communities.
Prof. Ismail Rashid
Resistance to Enslavement in South America, Caribbean, Americas, and Sierra Leone
Gabriel Greaves
Amadu Massally
Livecast by the Mayor of Freetown
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Britain’s Blacks: Why were they so Poor? African Abolitionists.The Making of Province of Freedom in 1787.
Iyamide Thomas
Michael Siva
Social History of Ordinary People. Britain’s Black Poor, Granville Town Settlers, Slavery Resistance.
Open Session
Q&A
Heritage Markers in Freetown, Africa, USA, Canadian, Caribbean, South America and British Communities.
Adrian Q. Labor
Akindele Decker
This 2nd 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.
