Critical Praise

“Fascinating…Exhilarating…Spectacular!”

——Washington Post

“Throbs with emotion, right up to the end…A great American book!”

——San Francisco Chronicle

“By tracing his heritage back to its African Roots he has done something extraordinary…He speaks not only for America’s black people, but for all of us everywhere.”

——The New York Times

“A compelling book that proves that not all histories 'have been written by the winners'.”

——Publishers Weekly

“Dramatically details slave family life --- birth, courtship, marriage, death and the ever-present fear of being sold off and having to leave your kin…the story of the Americanization of the Kinte clan strikes enough human chords to sustain the book’s cumulative power.”

——Time