Quarto, softcover, as new in beige and red decorative wraps. 198 pp. clean and unmarked. A cultural memoir by Ronald Daise, a native of St. Helena Island, South Carolina, that explores the author's personal journey to discover his West African lineage. It bridges the historical gap between Gullah Geechee communities and their ancestral homelands through travel, genealogy, and the arts. Illustrated throughout.

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Title: Gullah Branches, West African Roots
Publisher: Sandlapper Pub Co, 2007
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0878441824
ISBN 13: 9780878441822
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Natalie Daise
Condition: As New

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Gullah Branches, West African Roots is a memoir of a Gullah man discovering personal and cultural connections with West Africa through sojourns to Ghana and Sierra Leone. Ronald Daise, a Gullah native of St. Helena Island, SC, visited Ghana in 2004 as a Fulbright-Hays, US Department of Education fellowship recipient, and to Sierra Leone in 2005 as a participant in Priscilla s Homecoming. The Gullah homecoming to Sierra Leona connected the family of Thomalind Martin Polite of Charleston, South Carolina, with the country of its matriarch, Priscilla, who had been enslaved in 1756, at the age of ten. In 2006, Daise learned that his visits to Ghana and Sierra Leone had been more of a personal family reunion than he realized. He shares maternal genetic ancestry with the Temne people living in Sierra Leone. And he shares paternal genetic ancestry with the Ewe and Akan peoples in Ghana. Daise utilizes poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, songs, photographs, and his own unique voice to involve readers in a vibrant journey to cultural and historical roots.

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Ronald Daise was born on St. Helena Island, a coastal community in South Carolina that still exhibits Gullah culture. A 1978 graduate of Hampton University, Daise has documented Gullah culture and history with books, recordings, and performances since the 1986 publication of Reminiscences of Sea Island Heritage (Sandlapper Publishing, Inc.) He and his wife Natalie starred in Nick Jr. TV s award-winning children s series, Gullah Gullah Island, along with their children, Sara and Simeon.

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