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Saim Kinte recalls his first meeting with Alex Haley

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Clarke, Brian Moore, Melvin Barrow-Murray, Barbara Deare, Beth Lewis, Elma Yang, Eileen Senghor, Mustapha

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Following on the massive popularity and interest in Alex Haley's book and television miniseries Roots", The Gambia" focuses on three members of the Gambian Cultural Mission who met with Elma Lewis (Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists) to discuss their participation: Siam Kinte (cousin of Alex Haley and a Gambian), Dr. Lenri Peters (medical doctor, Chairman of the Monuments and Relics Commission of Gambia and head of the cultural delegation to the United States), and Bakari Sidebi (Head of the Cultural Archives in Gambia and archivist who helped Haley with his genealogy). Elma Lewis asks Saim Kinte to recall his first meeting with Alex Haley. Overall the program focuses on the Gambian Cultural Mission to the United States in 1977, a product of the massive popularity and interest in Alex Haley's book and television miniseries Roots. The first half of the program consists of a rebroadcast of "The Gambia," a program for WGBH's Cultural Affairs Department that originally aired on September 1, 1978. The second consists of a film acquired for broadcast from United Nations Television (Medicine Man). "The Gambia" focuses on three members of the Gambian Cultural Mission who met with Elma Lewis (Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists) to discuss their participation: Siam Kinte (cousin of Alex Haley and a Gambian), Dr. Lenri Peters (medical doctor, Chairman of the Monuments and Relics Commission of Gambia and head of the cultural delegation to the United States), and Bakari Sidebi (Head of the Cultural Archives in...
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Smith, KathyLewis, WebsterPugliesi, JoeFairweather, BillMerhar, MilanCorreia, DennisLou Cronin, MaryClarke, BrianMoore, RobertSmith, LeeColeman, VernJackson, BillJohnson, NatBartlett, DickFong, DianaCarter, MasambaWong, EvelynDemers, LeoRivera, GeorgeVigneaux, SteveJohnson, BillDevitt, DougHudson, HarveyJohnson, HenryHill, Rebecca
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Keywords

  1. Gambia, The (Motion Picture)
  2. Gambian Americans
  3. Gambian Cultural Mission To The United States (1977)
  4. Haley, Alex
  5. Kinte, Saim
  6. Lewis, Elma
  7. Medicine Man (Motion Picture)
  8. Peters, Dr. Lenri
  9. Roots (Television Program)
  10. Sidebe, Bakari
  11. United States

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