The epic drama of one man’s search for his origins. This is the extraordinary account of Alex Haley’s own 12 year search for his family’s origins. Tracing his ancestry through six generations, he discovered a 16 year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man who held the key to Haley’s deep and distant past. 

          The man is Alex Haley, a black American. Through six generations, lawyers and architects, he traced his ancestry back to Africa, back to Kunta Kinte, the sixteen-year-old youth torn from his homeland and brought in torment and anguish to the slave markets of the new World. The inspiration of the world-famous TV serial.