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About Kunta Kinte
Kunta Kinte is the main character from the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. Kunta Kinte was based on family oral tradition accounts of one of Haley's ancestors, a Muslim Gambian man who was born around 1767, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots is a mixture of fact and fiction.
Everything about Kunta Kinte →- Born
- 1750
- Died
- 1810