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year old Sarah Culberson was adopted by a white West Virginia couple. When
she was 28 years old, she sought out to find her birth parents and learned
that her biological mother had been a white college student who died of
cancer years ago. Her birth father, Joseph Konia Kposowa was a member of
the ruling family governing Bumpe village and the Medne tribe in Sierra
Leone, West Africa. Her father was the tribal King. Sarah was to her surprise...
an African Princess. Her father's country, which neighbours Liberia, had
been ravaged by a brutal and devastating 11 year long civil war. Despite
his royal title, her father still struggles to this day to rebuild his
village. Sarah visited her villagers in 2004 and was greeted by hundreds
of singing and cheering villagers and given the name Bumpenya, a Mende
word for Lady of Bumpe. Sarah is presently the Director of the Kposowa
Foundation. A non-profit organization which she co-founded to raise funds
to rebuild her village. Sarah will share with you: her life story, her
search for her biological parents, the dynamics of bi-racialism and her
vision of social and humanitarian responsibility. |
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