Kenema Cultural Performance

Our guests on this tour have a rare opportunity to experience three aspects of slavery, resistance and abolition. Sierra Leone, arguably like no other country in West Africa, can show that the slave trade affected and influenced us when we take our guests to Bunce Island. The British slave castle that sent thousands of captives to South Carolina and Georgia. For resistance to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, our tour lead guests to an ancient site, called Yagala Old Town (or Old Yagala for short), where Africans took refuge on a mountaintop from where they could see slave raiders coming from many miles away. And to show abolition, we go to Freetown to show relics and areas where the Black Poor in 1787, the Black Loyalists (also known as Nova Scotians) in 1792, the Jamaican Maroons in 1800, and the Liberated Africans from the time the trade was abolished by the British in 1807 through the 1860s, dwelled. Some of those who returned were actually born in Sierra Leone. Fascinating!