# Amadu Massally

> Co-Founder, Partner & CFO, TpGroup · Founder & CEO, Fambul Tik, TpGroup

Amadu Massally is TpGroup’s Chief Financial Officer and the founder and CEO of Fambul Tik. A CPA, systems auditor, author and cultural bridge-builder, he has spent two decades reconnecting Sierra Leone with the Gullah Geechee and wider African diaspora.

## Profile

Amadu brings a finance and systems background to TpGroup. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and as CEO of Gamut Consulting, LLC he helped Fortune 500 companies identify and implement the applications and technology infrastructure behind their sales, finance, operations and security functions. He studied at Morehouse College and the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he earned a degree in Management and Accounting.

In the United States he founded and chaired the Sierra Leone-Gullah Heritage Association (SLGHA) to reconnect African Americans of Sierra Leonean ancestry with their kin in Sierra Leone. He served as President of the Sierra Leone Network, sat on the boards of Young Leaders of Sierra Leone and Schools for Salone, and co-sponsored the Bunce Island exhibit that toured academic institutions across the US.

In 2009 he returned to Sierra Leone after twenty-six years abroad and founded Fambul Tik — Krio for “family tree” — which he leads as CEO. Fambul Tik runs heritage and roots journeys, including the Homecoming Tour, and has brought virtual study-abroad programmes to Sierra Leone for students who cannot travel.

He is also an author. His Gullah Geechee Trilogy braids memory, testimony and research to trace language, land and lineage across the Atlantic, and he writes regularly as Gambozo on Substack.

## Highlights

- 2006: Met Gullah scholar Emory Campbell on Hilton Head Island, sparking a lifelong mission
- 2008: Received the Key to the City of Beaufort, South Carolina; Bunce Island exhibit at Kennesaw State
- 2009: Returned to Sierra Leone and founded Fambul Tik
- 2011: Hosted a month-long Fulbright exchange study programme in Sierra Leone
- 2016: Led reconnection journeys to Jamaica, Trinidad and Grenada with Maroon descendants
- 2019: Gullah Roots documentary on PBS/SCETV
- 2024: Honoured as “Repairer of the Breach” and received the first Libation Chest
- 2025: Keynote in Beaufort, SC, uniting landowners, cultural stewards and descendants

## Books

- Gambozo’s Storytelling (Available now): An intimate portrait of the griots, song keepers and farmers who carry Gullah Geechee language and memory across generations. https://www.amazon.com/Gambozos-Storytelling-Through-Diaspora-Scavengers/dp/B0FP357D39
- Gullah Geechee Saga (Forthcoming): A sweeping chronicle tracing ancestral lines, sacred rituals and unbroken bonds between Sierra Leone and the Sea Islands. https://www.amadumassally.com/books
- Diaspora Scavenger (Forthcoming): Return journeys, archival discoveries and collective healing, bound into a covenant of memory. https://www.amadumassally.com/books

## Links

- [amadumassally.com](https://www.amadumassally.com/about)
- [amadumassally.me](https://amadumassally.me/about/)
- [Gambozo on Substack](https://substack.com/@gambozo)
- [Virtual study abroad with Fambul Tik](https://www.learnfromtravel.com/blog/fambul-tiks-founder-and-ceo-amadu-massally-brings-virtual-study-abroad-to-sierra-leone)
- [World Bank diaspora forum (speaker)](https://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/Event/Africa/sl-sierra-leone-diaspora-investment-and-trade-stakeholder-forum-speakers.pdf)
- [SLGHA profile (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20090523003238/http://www.slgha.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53:amadu-massally&catid=8:member-profiles&Itemid=50)

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