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Kunta Kinte
Kunta Kinte (also known as Toby Waller) is a character in the novel ''Roots: The Saga of an American Family'' by American author Alex Haley. Haley claimed that Kunta Kinte was based on one of his ancestors: a Gambian man who was born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America and who died in 1822. Haley said that his account of Kunta Kinte's life in ''Roots'' was a mixture of fact and fiction. However, doubts on the claimed factual aspects arose when it was discovered that Haley had plagiarized Kunta Kinte's story from another author's work.
Kunta Kinte's life story also figured in ''Roots'', a TV miniseries based on the book. The character in the miniseries was portrayed as a teenager by LeVar Burton and as an adult by John Amos.
==Historical accuracy==
Haley claimed that his sources for the origins of Kinte were oral family tradition and a man he found in The Gambia named Kebba Kanga Fofana, who claimed knowledge of the Kintes. He described them as a family in which the men were blacksmiths, descended from a marabout named Kairaba Kunta Kinte, originally from Mauritania. Haley quoted Fofana as telling him: "About the time the king's soldiers came, the eldest of these four sons, Kunta, went away from this village to chop wood and was never seen again."〔Alex Haley, "Black history, oral history, and genealogy", pp. 9–19, at p. 18.〕
However, Haley described his book as ''faction'': a mixture of fact and fiction. After Haley's book became nationally famous, American author Harold Courlander noted that the section describing Kinte's life was apparently taken from Courlander's book ''The African''. Haley at first dismissed the charge, but later issued a public statement affirming that Courlander's book had been the source, and Haley attributed the error to a mistake of one of his assistant researchers.〔"(Saying sorry for slavery )", ''The Times Literary Supplement'', 28 March 2007.〕 Courlander sued Haley for breach of copyright, which Haley settled out of court. In a later interview with BBC Television, the trial judge stated, "Alex Haley perpetrated a hoax on the public." During the trial, Alex Haley had maintained that he had not read ''The African'' before writing ''Roots''. Shortly after the trial, however, a minority studies teacher at Skidmore College, Joseph Bruchac, came forward and swore in an affidavit that he had discussed ''The African'' with Haley in 1970 or 1971 and had given his own personal copy of ''The African'' to Haley, events that took place well before publication of ''Roots''.
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