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Jamal Touré, J.D. is known as a Djeli (living historian or griot) who can comment on the lives of African people at home and in the diaspora. He is one of the first Gullah Geechees to be charged with that responsibility.
He founded Day Clean: The African Soul to inform, enlighten, and inspire African people regarding their cultures, and history. Day Clean is international in scope and vision. Day Clean seeks to connect African people with each other and promote African unity. Day Clean is dedicated to uplifting African people, their heroes, and heroines. Day Clean provides lectures, workshops, seminars, and tours. He has performed at programs/receptions for the Prime Minister of Haiti, the Mayor of Savannah, the Enstoolment of Queen Quet, Hassoum Ceesay, the Director of the Gambian National Museum, Danny Glover, and more importantly, he has performed for the people.
Day Clean Journeys was created by him to show a panoramic and multidimensional view of the history of Savannah and the Lowcountry areas of Georgia and South Carolina. Another of his companies, Gullah Geechee Arrangements promotes and showcases the rich and vibrant culture of the coastal areas of GA, SC, NC, and FL; and provides speakers/lecturers for a variety of topics ranging from politics, law and juvenile justice, self-esteem building, social issues, economics, genealogical research, history, culinary traditions, education, culture, historic preservation to eco-traditions and environment traditions..
Currently, he serves on the National Park Service’s Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission as a Commissioner. Out of the 54 National Heritage Areas the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor is the first National Heritage Area that is based on African (American) culture in the U.S.
His inspiritional and enlightening work has been presented in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New York, Vermont, and Haiti.
The editor of Pathfinders Travel Magazine, P. J. Thomas, wrote in an editorial during the magazine's eighth year of publication that his performance of an ocean-side libation ceremony in South Carolina, as the African Spirit, was one of the most memorable events to occur during the magazine's publication. |