Victor Okrafo-Smart
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The Reverend Victor Okrafo-Smart is a Sierra Leonean author and genealogical researcher. Smart wrote a book on his ancestors called Okrafo in which he depicts his ancestral heritage[1]. Smart currently resides in the Nottingham, United Kingdom. He has given presentations on how to trace African/Caribbean ancestry [2]. Professor Christopher Fyfe, a Scottish historian and scholar on Sierra Leone, and a fellow of University of Edinburgh helped provide Smart with primary sources of research.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Sources
- http://www.okrafo.com/
- http://sierraeye.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/a-book-worth-reading-okrafo/
- http://www.sierraeye.net/Sierra-Eye-Archive/Tribute-to-a-long-lost-relative-160-years-on.html
- http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/history/staff/pnugent.htm
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2007/02/23/victor_okrafo_smart_feature.shtml
- http://www.sierraeye.net/Sierra-Eye-Archive/Tribute-to-a-long-lost-relative-160-years-on.html
- http://nottinghamchurches.org/visitors/book01-03.html
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/abolition/index.shtml
- http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/sitemap/services/leisure_and_culture/libraries/lcli_useful_links/lcli_useful_family_history_sites/lcli_black_family_history.htm
- http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/sitemap/services/leisure_and_culture/lc-general-events-diary-2007/slavetrade/prog-event-slavetrade.htm
