Every family has a Cotton Tree. 
Every nation has roots worth remembering.

We Cotton Tree is a community storytelling archive that begins with Sierra Leone — and is growing into a model for families, diaspora, and nations to preserve their living memory.


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Faces & Quotes (Humans of NY Style)

“My grandmother carried her recipes in her head.
This is how I keep them alive.”


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“When the Cotton Tree fell, I cried like it was my mother.”

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“My grandmother carried her recipes in her head. This is how I keep them alive.”


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  • “This was the first time I felt our ancestors speaking through us.”

  • “This was the first time I felt our ancestors speaking through us.”

  • “This was the first time I felt our ancestors speaking through us.”

  • “This was the first time I felt our ancestors speaking through us.”

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