I collaborate with the deaf community in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). I did my PhD work on three West African sign languages, two used by micro-communities – Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana) with about 250 years, and Langue des Signes de Bouakako (Ivory Coast) with about 50 years, and one by a macro-community, Língua Gestual Guineense (Guinea-Bissau) with about 20 years. I compared personal experience narratives told in the three languages to better understand the differences between them.