Word: gambian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helluva welcome," mused Roots Author Alex Haley from his perch on the Gambian presidential yacht. "You couldn't have staged that if you wanted to." Haley, 55, was delighted by the tumult of drums, whistles, musket shots, and whirling dancers dressed in leaves-all a salute to him and his brothers George, a lawyer, and Julius, an architect, on their return "home" to the Gambian village of Juffure. There Alex handed the traditional gift of kola nuts to the eldest member of the Kinte family, a distant relative. If all goes according to plan, many other root seekers will...
Without doubt, the medium had much to do with the impact of the message. Haley learned about his earliest ancestors from an elderly Gambian griot (storyteller), a living repository of oral history who sat him down in the tiny village of Juffure and recited for him the centuries-old saga of his West African clan dating back seven generations to the warrior Kunta Kinte. Modern Americans learned about Haley's lineage in much the same way?huddled in a semicircle in their living rooms around that electronic-age griot, the television...
...Playing soccer in the United States calls for a big adjustment," Thomas, who played center forward for the Gambian national team before coming to Harvard, said. "My style was different from the players around me, and I had to completely disarm myself in order to fit in with them...
Thomas has given up his interest in acting here at Harvard because it conflicted with soccer, but he is applying to drama school in addition to law schools in England. His ambition is to go into the Gambian foreign service...
...fullbacks kept turning away the attack, and the balls that got past the fullback line were either deflected or stopped cold by the Cornell goalie. The fullbacks for Cornell started to tire, however, and the fullback covering the Crimson's Gomez was beginning to give the Gambian star too much running room...