Home An African family in the Diaspora Slavery Days Return to Africa the Motherland Family Tree: The Crooks of Jamaica Image and Documents Gallery Ancestors By Paul Crooks Paul’s Speaking Itinerary			The Crooks Family Descendants of Ami Djaba 1777-1825			Alex Haley
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			acknowledgement			Nelson Mandela
	Ancestors by Paul Crooks	The Story of an African Caribbean family From Africa to Europe	Going Back To Our Roots Tracing Back Through Our Father Line	Cousins Cove Formerly Crooks Cove Slave Plantation	Black History Really Didn’t Begin With Slavery
	Ghana Visit: 16^th November 2004 Ghana is a land steeped in culture and history, the number of places to visit and the quality of the tourist attractions is simply stunning. The people of Ghana are warm and I felt well looked after. My visit in November 2004 was facilitated by All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP which included the late Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael] among their ranks). With the organisation support was able to meet and interact with members of the Djaba house (we) in Somanya a town approximately miles North East of Accra. Somanya is located at the foot of Klo yo (Krobo Mountain). The house in Somanya was built approximately 100 years ago – soon after the Krobo were driven from the Krobo Mountain (see frame below) by European colonial powers in 1892. I told the elder that my Great Great Great Great Grand mother was Ami Djaba and of my mission to find our ancestral home. What I discovered would leave an everlasting impact on my understanding of who we who call ourselves African Caribbean’s really are. It would leave me with a yearning to reaffirm my relationship with Bilal es Sudan (the land of the Blacks). I have used extracts from the THE KROBO PEOPLE OF GHANA TO 1892, A political and Social history by Louis E Wilson Ohio University to support oral histories recounted to me by the Djaba elders. Plau, Krobo Mountain (Klo Yo), Ghana, West Africa Back to top