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It's difficult to say for certain, but Alex Haley was sued for plagiarism by the author of a book called The African. Also, research about Kunta Kinte supposed American history - being named Toby, and the Haley identified slave ship didn't corrospond - Toby has been identified as being in America long before the slave ship was supposed to bring him across. Another problem for Haley is that it was found that the African poet who named Kunta Kinte had previously been coached to relate such a story. Given this evidence, we might fall back on the "this story is symbolic of a truth" statement often used when stories are found to be not entirely true.

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Kunta Kinte was a character from the novel "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" by Alex Haley. The character was based on an African man who was enslaved and brought to America. While Kunta Kinte himself was a fictional character, the story was inspired by Haley's own family history and extensive research into the African slave trade.

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