Welcome to D.R.A.W.Bridge

This is a team of students, scholars, entrepreneurs, and volunteers who are building a digital library and genealogical/family history database for African Americans (Gullah-Geechee) in coastal Georgia and their “distant relatives” in Sierra Leone. The purpose of this project, sponsored by the Carlton-Carew Ep Foundation, is to exchange resources and ideas, initiating a dialogue to … Continue reading →

Pan-Africanism 2.0

What does Pan-Africanism mean today? It is as difficult for people today to provide a clear definition of what Pan-Africanism is as it was in 1968 when Immanuel Geiss published the Pan-African Movement.  In the first comprehensive study of the concept, Geiss settled on three major themes that characterized historical strands of the movement: 1) … Continue reading →