Transformative Journeys to West Africa: Honoring Ancestry and Resilience

You know, a lot of the stories we hear about ancestry travel zoom in on discovering the lives and names of specific relatives in our family trees. Like how Alex Haley’s research gave us Kunte Kinte and his story, which many of us know deeply from the book and the television series, Roots . But the reality is, for countless people of African descent, those exact names and relationships can be lost—or maybe were never recorded to begin with—because of the brutal history how Africans were sold as a labor source in the Americas, Brazil, and the Caribb...