BEYOND THE NAME – PUBLIC EDUCATION SERIES – EPISODE 25
Kunta Kinte is the name given by author Alex Haley to his ancestor, a young Mandinka man from Juffureh in present-day The Gambia who, according to the family history presented in Roots, was captured and transported to North America as an enslaved person in the 18th century. His story became internationally known through Haley’s 1976 novel Roots and its television adaptations.