Word: mandinka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the more ambitious efforts will be ABC's twelve-hour serialization of Alex Haley's Roots, scheduled to start on Jan. 23. A semifictional history, Roots traces Haley's ancestry from Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka African youth captured by slave traders in 1767. ABC has invested more than $6 million in the production, which will be televised over eight consecutive evenings-a scheduling experiment matched only by ABC's coverage of the 1976 Summer Olympics...