It is a short cut to the name Ogbanta, which used to be an honorary name given to a great hunter. For example:. Ogba Anu means animal shooter. Ogba Agu means lion shooter. Ogbu Agu means lion killer. Ogba r means shooter. Ogbu h means killer. The correct name should be Ogba as in Mba. The r and h were added by colonial masters for easier pronunciation. Please note that the O will have a dot under. While recording the oral history from family elders in the s in Panola County Como , Mississippi, the late Cousin Rev.
Yes, I am astounded. This appears to be more than coincidental to me! The stereotypical term pasted on to extremely intelligent college kids. A kunta : a. Is lazy b. Does better in life regardless of laziness c.
Rarely attends classes but d. Still beats the curve. Being a Kunta elevates your social status to a near aristocracy. Mean guitar skills 2. Excessive knowledge of computers and their workings 3.
Unfathomable communication skills and 4. Natural talent for any competitive activity in existence. An person of African descent. Tall, bald with washboard abs. Willing to make big sacrifices to gain a chance of posperity. Roots remains the third-highest rated telecast in American history. The show is credited by some as invoking a change in American attitudes to slavery -- a turning point in the post-civil rights struggle. Kinte is said to have been captured in Juffureh, a village across from Kunta Kinte Island, and transported to America on a boat called the Lord Ligonier.
Visitors to the Juffureh slavery museum can see the history of slavery in the area, and read some of the ads posted for the sale of slaves. For hundreds of years, the Gambian river was one of the major arteries for the capture and transport of slaves. At the height of the slave trade, a sixth of West African slaves came from this region. Because the Gambian river runs like an artery from the Atlantic into Africa, it was a crucial passageway for the slave trade. At its height, an estimated one in six West Africans slaves came from this area.
The island is also famous for its namesake: Kunta Kinte. Kinte was a character in Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots, and later of a miniseries by the same name.
Haley claimed his book was based on a real-life man who was captured into slavery in the nearby village of Juffureh, and that he himself was Kinte's great, great, great, great grandson. In Haley's story, Kinte, who was sold to an American slave owner, resisted both his enslavement and the name "Toby" that his owner imposed on him.
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