August 18–29, 2026
This is not a vacation.
It is a requirement.
The 2026 Sene-Gambia Journey: Repair Requires Return is a 12-day reparative pilgrimage through Senegal and The Gambia, created for reparationists, allies, cultural workers, artists, and all who are genuinely called into deep African diasporic connection and responsibility.
The premise is simple and uncompromising:
repair does not happen without return.
Return is not symbolic here. It is relational, political, spiritual, and embodied. It is a practice—of listening, of accountability, of remembrance, of presence. Through land, water, ritual, conversation, and rest, we return to what was interrupted and begin to tend what must be repaired.
Rooted in The Art of Reparations and Black Quantum Futurism, this journey moves beyond linear time. Memory operates as technology. Ancestral knowledge becomes instruction. The future responds to what we are willing to face and repair now.
We will stand at the site known globally as the Door of No Return—intentionally renaming it The Door of Return—not to reenact trauma, but to acknowledge truth and assume responsibility. We will move through Dakar, Lac Rose, the Lompoul Desert, and across borders into The Gambia, holding space for truth-telling and beauty, grief and joy, rest and resolve.
Expect ancestral ritual, reparations town halls with Senegalese artists and leaders, authentic food and performance, welcome dinners, beach days, desert glamping, and time for integration. Each experience is curated to support collective repair—of story, of spirit, of relationship.
This journey does not promise closure.
It offers commitment.
Because repair is ongoing.
And return is required.
August 18–29, 2026
This is not a vacation.
It is a requirement.
The 2026 Sene-Gambia Journey: Repair Requires Return is a 12-day reparative pilgrimage through Senegal and The Gambia, created for reparationists, allies, cultural workers, artists, and all who are genuinely called into deep African diasporic connection and responsibility.
The premise is simple and uncompromising:
repair does not happen without return.
Return is not symbolic here. It is relational, political, spiritual, and embodied. It is a practice—of listening, of accountability, of remembrance, of presence. Through land, water, ritual, conversation, and rest, we return to what was interrupted and begin to tend what must be repaired.
Rooted in The Art of Reparations and Black Quantum Futurism, this journey moves beyond linear time. Memory operates as technology. Ancestral knowledge becomes instruction. The future responds to what we are willing to face and repair now.
We will stand at the site known globally as the Door of No Return—intentionally renaming it The Door of Return—not to reenact trauma, but to acknowledge truth and assume responsibility. We will move through Dakar, Lac Rose, the Lompoul Desert, and across borders into The Gambia, holding space for truth-telling and beauty, grief and joy, rest and resolve.
Expect ancestral ritual, reparations town halls with Senegalese artists and leaders, authentic food and performance, welcome dinners, beach days, desert glamping, and time for integration. Each experience is curated to support collective repair—of story, of spirit, of relationship.
This journey does not promise closure.
It offers commitment.
Because repair is ongoing.
And return is required.
