From 1668 to 1829, 145,000 people were shipped from the slave trading port at St. Louis, Senegal. From 1668 to 1843, 126,000 people were shipped from the slave trading port of Bissau on the coast of modern day Guinea Bissau, West Africa. These are the lands were Fula/Fulani people were living. From these two slave trading ports, 6,400 people were brought to the Gulf Coast, 10,000 people were brought to the port at Charleston, South Carolina, 4,500 people were brought to Chesapeake, and 1,400 people were brought to New York. In addition, 85,800 people were brought to the Islands of the West Indies. If you are a Fula/Fulani descendant living in America today, the most likely scenario is that your Fula ancestor was one of those people. There are a lot of Fula descendants scattered throughout the United States. Working together, we can reconnect with our culture, develop our Heritage Corridor, and build together with our Fula family that are concentrated today in Guinea Bissau.
Join the Fula History & Genealogy Society in America.
We will help you research your family history, provide hard to find information on Fula/Fulani history, and include you in our development projects, tour groups, workshops and special events.
More and more people are discovering their Fula heritage.
Thanks to genetic testing companies like African Ancestry, people are discovering that their ancestors are called Fula/Fulani. The Fula History and Genealogy Society in America helps connect Fula/Fulani people to their history and their community.
WHAT DO I GET FOR MY MEMBERSHIP OF $30 EACH YEAR?
Community: Your membership connects you to a diverse community of people that share two things in common: Fula/Fulani ancestry and a desire to recover from ethnocide in the United States by learning and preserving Fula culture.
Institution: Your membership means that you have an institution, defined as a large-scale social arrangement that is stable and predictable, created and maintained to serve the needs of society that represents your interest as a Fula/Fulani descendant in the United States and in this world.
Opportunity: Your membership gives you the opportunity to contribute to the development of this institution and the welfare of Fula/Fulani people around the world through serving and performing meaningful work on various committees that organize and centralize the resources of the institution and its membership.
Education: Your membership supports the day-to-day operation of the institution, enabling it to collect and compile vast, and often obscure information related to Fula/Fulani people and produce the various books, articles and videos promoting all aspects of Fula/Fulani history, culture, language, and current events.
Access: There are thousands of grants and millions of dollars available for cultural, artistic, historic, social, educational, research and other projects. Have you got an idea or project that needs funds? As a member, you can write your own project proposal and use FHAGSIA’s 501c3 status to get access to grant funding.
News: Through the FHAGSIA’s public Facebook page and private Facebook group and Messenger chat, members get informed of important news concerning Fula people in Guinea Bissau, as well as discussion of world events from a Fula perspective.
Philanthropy and Development: FHAGSIA will engage in all kinds of philanthropy and development in the Fula homelands. We look to distribute books, food, and medical supplies to Fula/Fulani in Guinea Bissau.
Vision: Under the direction of Siphiwe Baleka, founder of BBHAGSIA, FHAGSIA will mirror his organization’s Five Year Plan, its Liberation Strategy, and the Heritage Corridor Project. In this way, FHAGSIA provides members a clear path toward achieving self-determination, autonomy within the United States, and Repatriation to Guinea Bissau.
Monthly Blog: As a member, you will have exclusive access to what would have been my next book entitled; My Soul’s Journey Home. That book, however, will now be a Blog. A once a month slow read of my month-long journey Guinea Bissau, West Africa, and Egypt. Through the blog you’ll view pictures and videos that really capture the experience. That trip changed the trajectory of my life in the most beautiful of ways, I’m overjoyed to be able to share it exclusively with you.
The above represent tremendous value for $30 annual membership.
You also have the satisfaction of making a worthy contribution!
SPREAD THE WORD
Tell your friends and family about Fula history and culture. There’s no better way to make an impact on behalf of the worldwide Fula/Fulani community than to become an active member yourself. Join now and connect to your lineage on a deeper more meaningful level.