we went back To Barbados
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More than 364 pilgrims journeyed to Barbados.
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Bajan-Africans Made the Pilgrimage Back To Barbados!
In collaboration with the Government of Barbados, we're grateful to have experienced the Sankofa Pilgrimage To Barbados with you. This was a heritage event of historical significance. The trip offered education, entertainment, networking, excursions, fun and more! Thank you for making these memories with us!
IMPORTANT NOTICE on Immigration Protocol Passengers are to be placed on the Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS) list. The list should be sent before the plane departs from its point of origin. Before arrival into Barbados, all passengers are asked to complete the travel form located here. Liberians do not require a visa for entry into Barbados. Adequate staff will be assigned to the airport to process the visitors.
Amb. Witherspoon Releases Book on Emigration
"Proud to announce that my limited-edition book, "Portes Find a New Home in Liberia" co-authored with my daughter, Loyce, was released! Thanks to all contributors, especially the Honorable Senator Chad Blackman.
Ambassador L Llewellyn Witherspoon
Listen to the Barbadian Prime Minister speak of the SANKOFA Pilgrimage to Barbados on March 18, 2024:
To our Family, Friend and Participant — Here's a Message from the Sankofa Pilgrimage to Barbados Planning Committee:
We applaud your interest and/or decision to join the direct- descendants of Barbadian-Liberians in making history, by participating in a pilgrimage which memorializes the 346 Barbadians who emigrated to Liberia in 1865. The Government of Barbados is a sponsor of the event.
Since the beginning of Registration in September 2023, we have received calls from across the global diaspora enquiring about the criteria or eligibility for attendance.
While it celebrates the lives and contributions of our Barbadian ancestors, the Sankofa Pilgrimage to Barbados is opened to Liberians, Africans and persons everywhere interested in the story of Africa’s past and the historical connection of the African people with Barbados, to learn, reflect and to build a stronger future together.
On behalf of the Planning Committee, I urge you to register soon to avoid disappointment, and look forward to welcoming you to our island in the sun, Barbados, in May 2024. Come. Let’s make history!
Ambassador L Llewellyn Witherspoon
Learn About Your Heritage
Africa and the Caribbean are intimately connected through threads of blood, shared heritage and history. Within the larger context, the story of Africa and Barbados is one of opposites – pain, suffering and eventual joy - that began with slavery during the Sugar Revolution in the 1600s and led to freedom in the 1800s. In 1636, a political directive provided that all Africans brought to the island were to be received as lifelong chattels. Shipment of slaves from Africa to the broader Caribbean had begun at least a century earlier. Altogether, for three and a half centuries, African captives from the Bight of Biafra, Gold Coast, Bight of Benin, West Central Africa and South-eastern Africa were carried across the Atlantic in slave ships originating in European ports. Following the passage in 1834 of the Slavery Abolition Act by the British Empire a year earlier, slavery was abolished in Barbados.
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