A Princess Found: An American Family an African Chiefdom and the Daughter Who Connected Them All

Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving white West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. Though raised in a loving family Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004 she hired a private investigator to track down her biological father. When she began her search she never imagined what she would discover or where that information would lead her: she was related to African royalty a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered a mahaloi the child of a Paramount Chief with the status like a princess. What followed was an unforgettably emotional journey of discovery of herself a father she never knew and the spirit of a war-torn nation. A Princess Found is a powerful intimate revelation of her quest across the world to learn of the chiefdom she could one day call her own.