{"id":64253,"date":"2013-12-30T00:02:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=64253"},"modified":"2013-12-30T00:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T00:02:41","slug":"sierra-leone-i-will-see-you-soon-whoopi-goldberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=64253","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSierra Leone, I will see you soon\u201d-Whoopi Goldberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oscar award winning actress Whoopi Goldberg has disclosed that she is planning a visit soon to Sierra Leone.<\/div>\n
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The \u2018Sarafina\u2019 star who recently discovered her DNA to the Kroo and Mende people of Sierra Leone said she is planning a \u2018home coming\u2019 soon.<\/div>\n
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Goldberg confirmed to SaloneJamboree in an exclusive interview that she discovered her DNA to Sierra Leone and she is ready to walk the footsteps of Isaiah Washington, another African American Hollywood actor who became the first African American to gain Sierra Leonean citizenship based on DNA.<\/div>\n
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Goldberg\u2019s interview with SaloneJamboree is the first for any Sierra Leonean media.<\/div>\n
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Commenting on her DNA discovery, she wrote to SaloneJamboree: \u201cIt’s a wonderful thing to be able to pinpoint where your blood originates, so it means I know where home is.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Asked whether she is ready to follow the footsteps of Isaiah Washington, the popular actress said: \u201cAgain it\u2019s another part of the “who and where did I come from” puzzle.\u00a0 I think if one follows Isaiah’s lead it can only help us all connect,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n
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On how she would use her new discovery to better the lives of Sierra Leoneans, Goldberg said: \u201cOnce I know more about my people… I can answer that.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Updating SaloneJamboree about her current projects, Goldberg said she just finished a documentary about a female comedian named Mom Mabley.<\/div>\n
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She said her current works also includes ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 2 book to movies’, ‘Big Stone Gap,’ and ‘A Day Late and a Dollar Short.’<\/div>\n
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On her popular South African anti apartheid movie, \u2018Sarafina\u2019, Ms Goldberg said: \u201cWhat makes \u2018Sarafina\u2019 different is no one knew this part of African history, and it felt needed, but it opened on the first day of the 1992 Riots in Los Angeles, so attention was not paid, \u201cshe said.She also has high regard for the South Africa`s first Black President,Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cNelson Mandela was a man true to his word, he united S.A.,and was able to forgive, and who doesn’t want that?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cLastly, my words to the people of Sierra Leone… I will see you soon.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Courtesy of Salone Jamboree<\/em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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