Isaiah Washington- a true warrior for his peopleTo many it was suprising when Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma decided to give citizenship to the 25 year acting veteran Isaiah Washington after he traced his ancestral roots through DNA to the Mende and Temne people of Sierra Leone. The ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star became the first African American to get citizenship through DNA and President Koroma the first African leader to award citizenship based on DNA. It is not suprising when a few days ago Africa’s most populated nation, Nigeria, decided to follow the foot steps of Sierra Leone by granting citizenship to Mrs. Hope Sullivan Masters, an African American woman who also traced her roots to the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Read more... Comments (1)
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