Victor Okrafo-Smart

The Reverend Victor Okrafo-Smart is a Sierra Leonean author and genealogical researcher. Smart wrote a book on his ancestors called Okrafo in which he depicts his ancestral Creole heritage1. Smart currently resides in the Nottingham, United Kingdom. He has given presentations on how to trace African/Caribbean ancestry 2. Professor Christopher Fyfe, a Scottish historian and scholar on Sierra Leone, and a fellow of University of Edinburgh helped provide Smart with primary sources of research.

AbOUT the Book

Smart's paternal ancestors came from a Royal house in Nigeria, and were taken as slaves by slave traders from another area.

Sources

• http://www.okrafo.com/
• http://sierraeye.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/a-book-worth-reading-okrafo/
• http://www.sierraeye.net/Sierra-Eye-Archive/Tribute-to-a-long-lost-relative-160-years-on.html
• http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/history/staff/pnugent.htm
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2007/02/23/victor_okrafo_smart_feature.shtml
• http://www.sierraeye.net/Sierra-Eye-Archive/Tribute-to-a-long-lost-relative-160-years-on.html
• http://nottinghamchurches.org/visitors/book01-03.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/abolition/index.shtml
• http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/sitemap/services/leisure_and_culture/libraries/lcli_useful_links/lcli_useful_family_history_sites/lcli_black_family_history.htm
• http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/sitemap/services/leisure_and_culture/lc-general-events-diary-2007/slavetrade/prog-event-slavetrade.htm