Kunta Kinte (/ˈkuːntɑː ˈkɪnteɪ/ KOON-tah KIN-tay; c. 1750 – c. 1822) is a fictional character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by...

miniature replica of his 9-m (30-foot) statue of Kunta Kinte that would be displayed on Kunta Kinte Island. Kunta Kinteh Island is suffering heavy erosion and...

the village of Juffure, where Kunta Kinte grew up and listened to a tribal historian (griot) tell the story of Kinte's capture. Haley also traced the...

Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery...

Part 1 In 1767, Kunta Kinte (Malachi Kirby) is a young Mandinka man from Jufureh in the Gambia region of West Africa. One day, Kunta is taken into the...

also recorded and released music as a solo artist and with the band Kunta Kinte, who were renamed Tough Love. Catch were descended from Brattish, Slater's...

Africa, in 1750, Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte, a Mandinka warrior, and his wife Binta. He is raised in a Muslim family. When Kunta reaches the age...

who are all credited as songwriters. "King Kunta" is a reference to the archetypal rebellious slave Kunta Kinte, the basis of the main character from the...

LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. reprise their respective roles of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler. The film takes place between the second and third episodes...

Screen International Star of Tomorrow in 2013. In 2016, Kirby starred as Kunta Kinte in the American miniseries Roots, a remake of the 1977 miniseries of...