Building Family history through story telling
From a tiny black and white tv set, we watched movies on the history of the Americas, "Le Nord, Le Sud" on America civil war, "Roots" reflecting on the dark history of the slave trade, characters like "Kunta Kinte" captured my attention, as a child, I imagined joining the army to go and save them, so as to return them to their homeland. In history class, we learnt that our Kingdom had resisted the slave traders from Zanzibar, the infamous Rumaliza, I had no idea that my maternal line participated in defeating Oman slave traders, I pay tribute to the descendants of Buha Royal House, HRH Prince Maconco whose bravery protected the Kingdom and Eastern Congo. While studying and researching new connections, it was evident that many of my maternal family had been captured by both slave traders from the Middle East and Portugal. For the last few years, I have been doing work to reconnect with our new family connection, to hear more about their journey, to recor...
