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Article: Festival time in Gambia; twenty years after 'Roots,' a country invites African Americans home. (travel arrangements by Black firm, Henderson Travel Services)(On Tour)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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When Alex Haley wrote his best-selling novel, Roots, two decades ago this year, it focused international attention on The Gambia. Haley traced his roots back to the small West African country where his great-great-grandfather Kunta Kinte was captured more than 200 years ago and brought to America as a slave.
And now Gambian tourism officials are inviting African Americans to The Gambia for the Second International "Roots Homecoming" Festival, June 14-21. The festival will include dancing workshops, drumming sessions, fashion shows, gospel festivals, wrestling matches and a film festival. All the activities are designed to focus renewed attention on the country. ...
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Article: Farrakhan, Gambia Honor Alex Haley
Sacramento Observer;
March 24, 1999 ;
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... ... to the President of The Gambia a desire to see the vision ... ceremony kicks off The Gambia's Annual "Roots" Festival, celebrating African Americans finding their African ancestry ... complex, James Island in The Gambia River will be renamed Haley ...
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