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A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All

Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry.  Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a private investigator to track down her biological father.  When she began her search, she never imagined what she would discover or where that information would lead her: she was related to African royalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered a mahaloi, the child of a Paramount Chief, with the status like a princess.  What followed was an unforgettably emotional journey of discovery of herself, a father she never knew, and the spirit of a war-torn nation.  A Princess Found is a powerful, intimate revelation of her quest across the world to learn of the chiefdom she could one day call her own.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 368
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-312-37879-0
  • EAN
  • 9780312378790
  • Genres
  • adoption, memoir, adult
  • Release date
  • 2009