This may account for some of the inaccuracies cited by experts and genealogists who questioned the authenticity of Roots. With Roots, I worked my head off to research everything and still a lot of the book is fiction." In an interview transcribed by the Alex Haley Roots Foundation, writer Lawrence Grobel asked Haley if he prefers to describe Roots with a different word than "novel," to which Haley replied, "Faction. Just because Kunta existed, however, does not mean every detail of his life shown in Roots is accurate. CNN also reported that Gambians still consider him to be a real person, with Gambian historian Lamin Ceesay showing the host of CNN's Inside Africa an old advertisement for slaves and saying that it featured the boat used to transport the real Kunta. The real Kunta was sold into slavery in 1767, despite his family's middle-class status. He detailed how the Kinte family arrived in the Gambian town of Juffure a generation before Kunta was born and worked as merchants.
The director of Boston University's African American studies program, John Thorton, served as the historical advisor to the Roots remake and wrote about Kunta Kinte's real life for The Huffington Post. And though there has been controversy over how much of Haley's book is factual, it seems that Kunta Kinte was indeed a real person, even if, as CNN reported in the same article, Roots may contain inconsistencies with his exact lineage. Roots is based on Alex Haley's book of the same name and according to CNN, the author said that Kunta Kinte was his own great, great, great grandfather.
Considering the historical context of his life, viewers may be wondering if Kunta Kinte was a real person as Roots follows his family over the course of eight hours. Roots follows Kunta Kinte and his family, from their origins in Gambia to their forced upheaval to America as slaves. The groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots and its powerful characters have returned to the spotlight, as a remake of the series will be simulcast across History, A&E, and Lifetime, over four consecutive nights beginning Monday, May 30.
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