Saim Kinte recalls his first meeting with Alex Haley

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Title:
Saim Kinte recalls his first meeting with Alex Haley
Description:
Following on the massive popularity and interest in Alex Haley's book and television miniseries Roots", The Gambia" focuses on three members of the Gambian Cultural Mission who met with Elma Lewis (Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists) to discuss their participation: Siam Kinte (cousin of Alex Haley and a Gambian), Dr. Lenri Peters (medical doctor, Chairman of the Monuments and Relics Commission of Gambia and head of the cultural delegation to the United States), and Bakari Sidebi (Head of the Cultural Archives in Gambia and archivist who helped Haley with his genealogy). Elma Lewis asks Saim Kinte to recall his first meeting with Alex Haley. Overall the program focuses on the Gambian Cultural Mission to the United States in 1977, a product of the massive popularity and interest in Alex Haley's book and television miniseries Roots. The first half of the program consists of a rebroadcast of "The Gambia," a program for WGBH's Cultural Affairs Department that originally aired on September 1, 1978. The second consists of a film acquired for broadcast from United Nations Television (Medicine Man). "The Gambia" focuses on three members of the Gambian Cultural Mission who met with Elma Lewis (Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists) to discuss their participation: Siam Kinte (cousin of Alex Haley and a Gambian), Dr. Lenri Peters (medical doctor, Chairman of the Monuments and Relics Commission of Gambia and head of the cultural delegation to the United States), and Bakari Sidebi (Head of the Cultural Archives in Gambia and archivist who helped Haley with his genealogy). Medicine Man documents the medical practice of Dr. Peters and his integration of Western medicine with African tribal medicine. Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.
Director:
Clarke, Brian
Creator:
Moore, Melvin
Producer:
Barrow-Murray, Barbara
Creator:
Deare, Beth
Contributor:
Smith, Kathy
Contributor:
Lewis, Webster
Contributor:
Pugliesi, Joe
Contributor:
Fairweather, Bill
Contributor:
Merhar, Milan
Contributor:
Correia, Dennis
Contributor:
Lou Cronin, Mary
Contributor:
Clarke, Brian
Contributor:
Moore, Robert
Host:
Lewis, Elma
Contributor:
Smith, Lee
Contributor:
Coleman, Vern
Contributor:
Jackson, Bill
Contributor:
Johnson, Nat
Contributor:
Bartlett, Dick
Contributor:
Fong, Diana
Researcher:
Yang, Eileen
Contributor:
Carter, Masamba
Contributor:
Wong, Evelyn
Contributor:
Demers, Leo
Contributor:
Rivera, George
Contributor:
Vigneaux, Steve
Contributor:
Johnson, Bill
Contributor:
Devitt, Doug
Contributor:
Hudson, Harvey
Contributor:
Johnson, Henry
Contributor:
Hill, Rebecca
Researcher:
Senghor, Mustapha
Date:
June 22, 1979
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
WGBH Open Vault
Series:
Say Brother
Subjects:
Kinte, Saim
Haley, Alex
Gambia, The (Motion picture)
Sidebe, Bakari
Gambian Americans
Gambian Cultural Mission to the United States (1977)
Lewis, Elma
Peters, Dr. Lenri
Medicine Man (Motion picture)
Roots (Television program)
Link to Item:
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C46E0ABD975947B49D2D656201946992
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Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Identifier:
V_C46E0ABD975947B49D2D656201946992