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Meet the Fraziers

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012-11-29
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
ISBN	14800852949781480085299
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WbMTkgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋When I was a young boy growing up in Mississippi, I wondered who my ancestors were. I knew my parents, grandparents, great grandparents, neighbors, church members, school mates and school teachers. My life was so simple at that time.It took fifty (50) years for me to learn where my maternal ancestors came from in Africa. My maternal ancestors originated from the Mbundu people in Angola, the Akan people in Ghana, and the Yoruba and Fulani people in Nigeria. I visited my Akan family in Ghana, West Africa in 2011.It took sixty (60) years for me to learn that my paternal ancestors originated from the Balanta ethnic tribe in Guinea Bissau, West Africa. This means that my paternal family lineage (Father Willie B, Grandfather Frank, Great Grandfather Ben, Great Grandfather Joe, Great Grandfather Camnateh, Great Grandfather Kufoyeh, Great Grandfather Be-Yayah, etc.) connect back to the Balanta ethnic tribe. This book is about the reunion of an African family that was force separated reluctantly in Africa and in the United States of America. The African American family discovers their African ancestral linage through DNA testing and reconnects more than 500 years of history. The African American family compiles a complete genealogy of their people from 1770 (in Africa) to 2012 (in the United States). The results are published in this book. Each family member is called by name and introduced to other family members. The purpose of this book is to introduce the Frazier descendants to their African roots in Guinea Bissau, West Africa (the Balanta people). In a similar manner, the purpose of this book is to introduce the Balanta people in Guinea Bissau, West Africa to their American roots in the United States. The book was designed to introduce the living descendants and descendants yet unborn to their paternal family lineage in the United States and in Africa.The purpose of this book is to bring Black families together under one love umbrella. We have been scattered and now it is time for us to come home in our hearts and minds. In coming home, we transcend the barriers of educational, spiritual, social and economic divide. We transcend barriers and limits that have been self-imposed and externally-imposed. Our struggles have been great