African Lisbon Tour

The story of Isaac Johnson, his mother, father and three other siblings, began like that of an ordinary family, with love, laughter and a great deal of looking out for each other. How it ends is rather not what any child would have imagined, especially when it has their father at the very centre of … More A True Story of a Father Who Sold His Wife and Four Children. By One of the Children

The small island of Curaçao was inhabited by the Arawak indigenous people until it was “discovered” by Spanish explorers in 1499. After “discovering” Curaçao, a few Spanish explorers made temporary homes on the island where they temporarily stayed before continuing their journey carrying most of the Arawak people into other colonies as labour. For several years, the … More TULA SLAVERY FREEDOM STATUE

Abu Koroma is the archivist in training at the National Archives of Sierra Leone — and he’ll remain the archivist in training until one of the two senior archivists retire. “That is how it is done,” he laughed. When Koroma started at the archives in 2004, Sierra Leone was emerging from civil war. He was … More Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost

                                                 The Emancipation Statue is the work of Barbados’ best known sculptor Karl Broodhagen and symbolises the breaking of the chains of slavery at Emancipation. Slavery, abolished in 1834, was followed by … More Emancipation Statue

  Le Negre Marron (The Black Maroon; in creole, Neg Mawon), often translated in English as the Unknown Slave, although Fugitive or Rebel Slave would probably be more accurate in the context of Haitian history. Located on the boulevard Champ de Mars with Haiti’s presidential palace in background. The Negre Marron is shown with left … More Le Negre Marron (The Black Maroon), Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1970

Incalculable loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted   Brazil’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire, and much of its archive of 20 million items is believed to have been destroyed. The fire at Rio de Janeiro’s 200-year-old National Museum began after it closed to the public on Sunday … More A year ago: Brazil museum on fire

AFRICANS ARRIVE IN VIRGINIA, 1619   One stormy day in August of 1619 a Dutch manof-war with about 20 Africans on board entered port at the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Little is known of these newly arrived people: the first Africans to set foot on the North American continent. At this time the slave … More 1619-2019: 400 years later

The African Lisbon tour is honoured to be invited to 2019 Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emanticipation Summit that will take place in Richmond from Aug 20-22. Eventhough we could not have been issued the Visa by the US Embassy our participation will be real and be ONE with our brothers and sisters. 1619-2019: In … More 2019 Valuing Black Lives

“ If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else” Toni Morrison ( 1931-2019) Your voice and texts will remain and guide us everytime and everyday. You empower millions of people and WE will also continue empowering others. Your breath, cried … More Tribute to Toni Morrison

The story of those who worked tirelessly to end slavery in the 19th century cannot be told without giving due prominence to Black abolitionists like Mary Prince, Phyllis Wheatley, Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano. Linda Ali traces the history of resistance and rebellion.   The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807) gave the Church … More Black Abolitionists and the end of the transatlantic slave trade