Alphonso Brown is a licensed tour guide for the City of Charleston, and owns and operates Gullah Tours. He is the author of one of The History Press best seller, A Gullah To Guide Charleston. He is a lecturer on the Gullah language and Black History of Charleston. He has given lectures and Gullah presentation for students from North Carolina A&T College, National Association of Substance and Drug
Abuse Commission, Charleston Nurses Association, The Medical University Minority Program, The 1993 Annual Meeting of the Seventh Episcopal District of the South Carolina A. Church Lay Organization, The University of
College Designer Association, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority of Chapel Hill. N.C., Bell South,The Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, and many other organizations. He has been a guest on the talk show “Question of the Day,” KQXL in Baton Rouge. LA., The Michael Feldman’s radio talk show, and numerous radio and television appearances. Brown’s Gullah Tours was featured in the May 1993 issue of the Charleston Magazine, in the February 1995 edition of Southern Living Magazine, The January l996 edition of Readers Digest, in Charles Kuralt’s best seller, America, Bert Wolf television special of Charleston, Southern Living Presents on Turner South Television Network, October 2009 edition of Southern magazine for one of the top five tours in Charleston, South Carolina PBS specials, and B. Smith with Style are just a few of the many television and newspaper/magazine articles. He is a recipient of the very prestigious, “Three Sisters Award,” and was recently recognized at one of South Carolina State University Stellar Alumni. His web site is www.gullahtours.com.
