The bones of her ancestors
Unlike most Africans living in America by way of the transatlantic slave trade, Margaret Durham knows exactly where she came from.
The St. Louis resident is a descendent of the Yao tribe in Malawi, in southern Africa. Her tribe's name means "the land of the sun."
It wasn't until her father died in 1988 and she watched the epic TV mini-series Roots that she became interested in climbing her family's ancestral tree.
The St. Louis Amarican
- posted by Mike Goad @ 10/07/2004 04:43:00 PM