Salone Ancestry Homecoming
Join us for the 7th Annual Sierra Leone Homecoming Tour
April 22, 2023 – May 4, 2023

Salone Amcestry Homecoming
7th Annual Homecoming Tour
Manstravel, LLC and Tourism Is Life is now registering for the 7th Annual Homecoming Pilgrimage. This guided and cultural tour is a personalized group travel package offering a life changing experience to connect to your Sierra Leone roots. Along with the beauty of the culture, you will rediscover your home, participate in a naming ceremony and have an opportunity to receive citizenship with eligible documentation and procedures. Register Now!
Our Story
Rediscover Your Home
With the help of African Ancestry Inc. DNA testing, Sierra Leone descendants can rediscover their ancestral home and rich culture. Now that you know, its time to go home. We provide a central resource for you to plan your travel to your ancestral homeland. Prepare for a life changing experience in visiting the beautiful and rich culture as well as the amazing people of Sierra Leone. “Welcome Home to Mama Salone!”


President Julius Maada Bio (Dr.), Republic of Sierra Leone
with Group Leader Chavonna Frazier (Yatta Boima) and the members of the 1st Annual Year of Return, April 23, 2019.
What we Offer
Your Experiences
Manstravel, LLC is a destination management company dedicated to providing guided, cultural tours throughout select countries in Africa. Salone Ancestry Homecoming is a personalized group travel package which includes lodging, gourmet traditional food, citizenship opportunity, naming ceremony, cultural tours, and a representative who travels with the group 24/7 to ensure a safe, enjoyable experience for all of our travelers.
Sierra Leone Citizenship
Traditional Naming Ceremony
Discover Beautiful Cultures
Salone Homecoming
Quick Facts
Homecoming Experience Team
Meet your Experience Coordinators
Our experienced and dedicated team embraces the pillars of exemplary tourism and travel services by providing top quality leisure, entertainment and cultural tours and we are the premiere experience coordinator for Sierra Leone and other African countries.




Hon. Memunatu B. Pratt (Dr.)
Minister of Tourism and
Cultural Affairs
Republic of Sierra Leone
Ministry of Tourism And
Cultural Affairs
As Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Hon. Memunatu B. Pratt (Dr.) has been considered, by many, as one of the best performing Ministers, an award which she won at the 2018 Annual Diaspora Focus Awards. She has and continues to spearhead several initiatives which have contributed to solving the perennial challenges of the tourism sector such as the high cost of traveling to Sierra Leone and the difficulty in accessing the destination.
She also pioneered the establishment of the homecoming of African Americans who have found through DNA, their ancestral roots in Sierra Leone. In commemoration with the 60th Anniversary of Independence, the 3rd Annual Homecoming will take place, April 20 – May 2, 2021. This event will be coordinated by the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the private sector. Tourism Is Life Tours (Alieya Kargbo) as inbound and Manstravel, LLC (Eugenia Chinsman) as the outbound tour operators.
Participants on this tour will be required to submit a copy of their American passport and their African Ancestry DNA certificate with other relevant documents.
Homecoming Memories
Gallery list
Take a look at previous members who returned home to reconnect with their ancestral homeland and beautiful culture of Sierra Leone.
Latest Information
Homecoming Resources
View the latest news, travel tips, and festival information as well as resources to help you have a memorable experience to “Mama Salone”.
President Bio confers citizenship on 22 African American citizens
Home Coming Festival & 60th Independence Anniversary Information
Things You Need to Know Before Traveling to Sierra Leone
Contact Us
Get in touch
Our Location
114 Ledgebrook Drive
Norwalk, CT 06854
Book Your Homecoming
Tel1: (917) 860-1232
Tel2: (203) 852-4300
Fax: (203) 831-9044
E-mail Us
Information: mantra2sj@cs.com