Roots
Author: Alex Haley
Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne, , Tracing his ancestry through six generations – slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects – back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish bro….Read More
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