- Victor Okrafo-Smart
The Reverend Victor Okrafo-Smart is a
Sierra Leone an author and genealogical researcher. Smart wrote a book on his ancestors called Okrafo in which he depicts his ancestral heritage [http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2007/02/23/victor_okrafo_smart_feature.shtml] . Smart currently resides in theNottingham ,United Kingdom . He has given presentations on how to traceAfrica n/Caribbean ancestry [http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/sitemap/services/leisure_and_culture/lc-general-events-diary-2007/slavetrade/prog-event-slavetrade.htm] . ProfessorChristopher Fyfe , a Scottish historian and scholar on Sierra Leone, and a fellow ofUniversity of Edinburgh helped provide Smart with primary sources of research.About the Book
Smart's paternal ancestors came from a Royal house in
Nigeria , and were taken as slaves by slave traders from another area.ources
*http://www.okrafo.com/
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*http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/sitemap/services/leisure_and_culture/lc-general-events-diary-2007/slavetrade/prog-event-slavetrade.htm
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