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    It's 30 years since the TV drama Roots first screened. The show had a profound impact on black people in the US and UK, recalls Kwame Kwei-Armah, right, who spoke to others about their memories of the programme.

    Thirty years ago I was an 11-year-old growing up in West London.

    One evening I sat down with my family to watch a new television programme called Roots.

    It was a moment that changed my life.

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    • By the end of the series I had told my mother that I would one day trace my heritage back to Africa and reclaim an ancestral name. Before I watched the programme I was called Ian Roberts but now my name is Kwame Kwei-Armah.

    Roots was a novel based on the writer Alex Haley's family history. It started in Africa with a young man called Kunte Kinte being captured by slavers.

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    It followed him as he was transported to America and sold into slavery. It then focused on his descendants all the way down to Alex Haley.

    I thought it would help people to understand the re