time the name had ever been spoken as this child’s name, for Omoro’s people felt that each human being should be the first to know who he was. The tan-tang drum resounded again; and now Omoro whispered the name into the ear of Binta, and Binta smiled with pride and pleasure. Then Omoro whispered the name to the arafang, who stood before the villagers. “The first child of Omoro and Binta Kinte is named Kunta!” cried Brima Cesay. As everyone knew, it was the middle name of the child’s late grandfather, Kairaba Kunta Kinte, who had come from his native Mauretania into The Gambia, where he had
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