Since March 2023, the Port of Harlem Gambian Education Partnership has been passionately creating our fourth permanently displayed donation and our third groundbreaking exhibition. “The Trans-Atlantic Human Trade and The Gambia’s Overflowing Significance” is not just another exhibit—it’s a bold reimagining that shines a powerful spotlight on Africa’s Smiling Coast: The Gambia, and its pivotal role in world history.

We will finally have the exhibit printed in early July. The Juffureh Slavery Museum will install the exhibit before the year’s end. The museum is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Unlike the enslaved person “castles” in other countries, our exhibition reveals why Fort James—now a historical ruin—was so economically vital that the French destroyed it. Remarkably, just seven months later, Haitian soldiers helped the Americans defend Savannah, Georgia, during the American Revolutionary War. These untold stories connect The Gambia’s past to a shared, global heritage.

Our previous exhibit broke barriers by using eight local languages. At its opening, Hassoum Ceesay, Director General, National Centre for Arts and Culture in The Gambia, boldly declared, “For the first time, the museum’s exhibit has been decolonized.” Now, we’re going even further.

This new exhibition features 9 local languages and three indigenous scripts. The exhibit’s very name will appear in Mandinka, Pular, and Wolof, written in N’ko, ADLaM, and Wolof Ajami scripts, respectively, along with English subtitles and Latin script. This is a celebration of cultural diversity and true decolonization in action.

This is your final opportunity to forever link your name with a history-making, decolonization project that will inspire generations. Stand with us—make your donation today and become an enduring part of this extraordinary legacy.

We named the three donation levels after the commodities that Gambians traded with Europeans, aside from humans.

Gold ($1,000)
- Omar Ceesay and Jennaba Badgi (Peace Corp Moniker) - Maryland, USA
- Maggie Louise Hearon Young (posthumously) – Indiana, USA

Ivory ($500)
- Anonymous – Maryland, USA

Beeswax ($250)
- Isabelle Williams-Brown - Washington, DC
- Ivan Brown - Washington, DC
- Bernadette Champion - Maryland, USA
- Dr. Keith W. Crawford – Washington, DC USA
- Virginia A. Farquharson – New Jersey, USA
- My Gambia -  Kerr Serign, The Gambia
- Ronald Lewis - Washington, D.C.
- Michael Ricks – Idaho, USA
- Kathleen Trent – Texas, USA

In-Kind
- Ebrima Cham - Kani Kunda, The Gambia
- Amidou Baba Galleh Jallow - Nema Kunku, The Gambia