However, Kunta manages to escape, killing one of the Koro family in the process before being recaptured. The two are suddenly surrounded by the Koro family, who intend to ransom Kunta back to his relatives.

After undergoing an initiation ceremony and becoming a warrior, Kunta tells his father that he wishes to attend a university in Timbuktu in response to his father disagreeing with him, Kunta runs off into the jungle where he meets up with his lover, Jinna. After returning home, Kunta reports his discovery to his teachers, who decided in light of this information that Kunta' training must come to an end. Kunta then sees the rival Koro family in another group of canoes, hunting for slaves to sell to European slave traders. During a test where Kunta is made to run through the jungle in a certain period of time, he sees a man's dead body lying in a canoe. One day, Kunta is taken into the jungle with other Mandinka youth as part of their training to become warriors. In 1767, Kunta Kinte ( Malachi Kirby) is a young Mandinka man from Jufureh in the Gambia region of West Africa. It was produced on a budget of $50 million. and South African actress Nokuthula Ledwaba. It first aired on and stars Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anika Noni Rose, T.I. Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an African man who is shipped to North America as a slave and his descendants.

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