American Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph Proud of Her Cameroon Ancestry

An American actress, Sheryl Lee Ralph, has praised an initiative to help African-Americans reconnect with their ancestry by visiting the countries, such as Cameroon, where their forefathers originally came from.

Sheryl Lee Ralph and her husband Senator Vincent Hughes are among a group of 90 people visiting Cameroon as part of an ancestry reconnection programme where African-Americans whose origins have been traced to that country via DNA tests are invited back in a tour hosted by ARK Jammers, Inc., accordding to AtlasFamily.org.  

"...that I can sit here in this New Year and say I am a Cameroonian-American is a wonderful thing," Sheryl Lee Ralph, said on Cameroon national television (CRTV).

DNA tests showed that the ancestors of the actress, who was nominated for Broadway's 1982 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Dreamgirls and starred in the movie Sister Act 2, were from the Tikar ethnic group in Cameroon (read more about the Tikar of Cameroon in this article by anthropologist, Francis Nyamnjoh). 

Watch an excerpt of her statement in the video below and click here to read more about the reconnection programme, which is in its 2nd edition.

 

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[term papers]

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[BAH ACHO]

one funny thing with african americans today is they are soo alienated culturally .they find it almost impossible to get rid of slavery names and re appropraite themselves by adopting new authentic african names.some of us born on the continent do not help the situiation iether by bearing the same slavery names imposed by aryan occupants.but then the name of a person plays three key rules in personbality building.philosophical;historic;cultural.this is what givesd us a strong sense of identity.but traumatized by more than 1500 years of arab islamic and european cotholic domination.some of us openly practice self negation identifying with the anemy at times.another very important aspect is linguistic and cultural.in oder to elevate ourselves in all domains.africa must drop colonial languages and elaborate authentic african languages for science and business in oder to valorise our tradition and culture.without this.the tradition of science would never be deeply rooted in african anymore.