About Us

Essence of Sankofa Odyssey

“Honoring our heritage and sharing our passion for sailing and adventure”

• We are Sailors with a passion for exploration and adventure.
• There is no mistake that this passion exists in us in part because of our heritage. There are recent writings and discoveries (past 50 years) that have identified the expansion and injection of African culture throughout the world as far as 3,000 years ago. This expansion was successful because of courageous sailors and leaders with the very same passion for sailing and adventure we possess. The sailing prowess is mostly noted in the Western and Northern regions of Africa where they negotiated the waters of the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, and the mighty Atlantic Ocean. Their desire to coexist with the seas did not stop there. Once reaching the Americas, they became intimately familiar with waters and coasts of South America, Caribbean Islands, Central America, and more than likely but not widely accepted, North America.
• Our guests in adventure are from many different countries and cultures.
• We have a desire to expose others to sailing and our heritage.
• We have a desire to expose other cultures to our adventures and to help them realize that the passion from those leaders and sailors ventured before us lives strong within us.
• We have a desire to expose others to our passion for sailing g and adventure.

There is a set of symbols from West Africa that were defined based on Wisdom. These symbols are called “Adinkra”. One of the symbols is Sankofa which literally means “return and get it”. The concept is that “we must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today." The philosophy is that we should always place importance in learning from the past and honoring the past. This symbol shows a mythical bird moving forward while looking back into the past to learn from and to honor the endeavors of forefathers and ancestors. There is an egg in its beak which symbolizes the future.

The name “Sankofa Odyssey” speaks to the recognition of:

• the passion we honestly received from our heritage,
• our acceptance of our heritage,
• the importance of learning our history,
• our desire to share in our ancestor’s experiences today,
• our role in the creation of a legacy of learning, sailing, and adventure.

Sankofa Odyssey

The sailors of Sankofa Odyssey are reclaiming the spirit of teh ancient sailors who came before us! We are tapping the passion and moving forward! We learn more about ourselves with each adventure!
We are returning and We are getting it!