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Events & Speaking

Bring the Gullah Geechee Saga to your classroom, stage, or community gathering. Storytelling sessions, keynotes, and interactive workshops that move from hush to rhythm—connecting Sierra Leone to the Sea Islands.

Speaking

Invite the Author Share the Story

Keynotes, storytelling, panels, and educator workshops—both in-person and virtual. With lived experience across Sierra Leone and deep ties to the Gullah Geechee corridor, Amadu brings testimony, research, and ancestral memory to each engagement. This is not a lecture. It is a return.

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Black Loyalists to Sierra Leone

Nearly 1,200 Black Loyalists left Nova Scotia for Sierra Leone in 1792 under John Clarkson, whose journals and letterbooks record the recruiting, musters, and embarkation lists

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Heritage Journeys
Community Sessions

Tracing Sierra Leone Voyages

Antigua & Barbuda National Archives Amadu tracing descendants and uncovering clues of voyages departing Sierra Leone.

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Cultural Education & Consulting

For schools, arts organizations, and civic partners—custom programs rooted in ethical research, community partnership, and practical outcomes.

Curriculum Design

Syllabus & modules on Gullah Geechee history, language, and arts.

Workshops & PD

Educator training, facilitation, and community engagement labs.

Archive & Oral History

Ethical collection, naming projects, and story-gathering.

Journey Planning

Site research and partnerships along the corridor & in Sierra Leone.

Praise for the Saga

Charleston, SC

Powerful, generous, and grounded. Our students left with language for what their ancestors survived—and created.

St. Helena Island

This wasn’t a talk. It was a homecoming. The ring shout history segment moved the whole room.

Savannah, GA

Rigorous and tender. The research is meticulous and the storytelling carries it straight to the heart.

Beaufort, SC

Amadu connects Sierra Leone to the Lowcountry with care. It felt like doors opening both ways.

Georgetown, SC

We felt seen. The workshop balanced truth-telling with joy and gave us tools to keep going.