Sojourn To Africa

Every student who completes the 27-month program will travel to Africa.

Students visited Senegal and The Gambia in 1998, Ghana in 1999 and Egypt in 2000-2006. Completion of assignments, maintaining a minimum "C" average in school, attending all field trips and bi-monthly classes and participation in fund-raising activities are crucial elements for completing the program. It is our belief of that this unique opportunity for those students to visit the motherland, listen and learn from the elders and dialogue with their African peers will result in a life altering experience and give them a correct perspective of who they are, their true history and their innate ability to succeed against all odds.

All expenses related to the Africa trip are free to the student.

Sojourn Itineraries:

August 1998 - Sojourn To Senegal & The Gambia

• City Tour of Dakar
• Pink Lake
• Goree Island Slave Dungeons
• Reception at home of Khalif General of Lion Community
• Audience and Reception at home of Sheik Hassan Cisse, Kaolack, Senegal
• City tour of Banjul, The Gambia
• Audience with Mayor of Banjul (made honorary citizens of Banjul)
• Visit crocodile farm
• Visit Tie-dye factory
• Sports activities with SOS Children's Village, the Gambia

August 1999 - Sojourn to Ghana

• City tour Accra
• Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park
• W.E.B DuBois Memorial
• Aburi (wood carving village)
• Kumasi (the Ashanti Kingdom; audience with Asantehene, King of the Ashanti Nation)
• Bonwere (home of Kente cloth)
• Elmina & Cape Coast (slave dungeons)
• Visit to Essaman Village, Elmina region)

August 2000 - Sojourn to Egypt

• City Tours of Cairo, Luxor and Aswan
• Pyramids & Her-em-Akhet (Sphinx) and Solar Ship
• Valley of Kings and Queens
• Abu Simbel
• Cairo and Nubian museums
• Nubian village and school
• Dinner on the desert
• Nile river dinner cruise