A Question of Identity & Belonging : Tracing The Route Home

Centuries have passed but the ramification of transatlantic slave trade is still visible among the African kingdoms. The voices and echoes of many bundled and shipped across the Atlantic to the western world are still heard crying laudably asking for their routes home to connect with their ancestries. The cry to reunite with their disintegrated families over the years has been the main pre-occupation of the African diasporas. The unanswered question remains; which part of African did their ancestors come from and how will they locate their home? 
Oku, one of the African kingdoms in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, has had its fair share of the slave trade, with households reportedly missing families to the slave raiders. A paper by some distinguished sons of Oku: Dr. Mbingek Gilbert Wensakwiy, Dr. Ngwang Michael, Mr. Dom Eric, Mr. Tah Kennette Konsum and Mr. Ngong Elijah; attempts to historically locate the whereabouts of the princes and princesses bundled away during the period of the transatlantic slave trade. Through historical stories, folklore, and patches of uncovered documentations, the paper establishes that unlike other African kingdoms and fondoms, the population of Oku is scattered across the world, taken away during the transatlantic slave trade era. Putting aside, DNA, findings of the study reveal that it is easy to locate the princes and princesses of Oku seized to the western world. This can be done through historical patterns and ancestral revelations either by folklores or proverbs. 
Migratory Story of Oku 
Going by the authors of the paper, the migratory story of Oku is gotten from oral tradition since there was no form of documentary repositories by then. The patches of history gotten was handed down from generation to generation and preserved through folklores, songs, riddles etc. for posterity.  While in the western world, the persons captured from Oku and other areas in Africa passed through tortuous experiences and a general cry was when and how they could get back home to join their families. This became a far-fetched dream as things were proving tough every day and all hopes going back to Africa was seemingly an unlikely idea. Though the moments were tedious, it is alleged that some historical and geographical features they had encountered on their way to their site before being swift off were still fresh on their minds. These were features like the lake, Kilum Mountain and they kept recounting these features across the lane. One thing to note is that their culture was still exhibited even in the Western world especially in the America and Caribbean plantations. This was visible in songs and folklores capturing their home land and the horrific experiences they passed through from; capturing, crossing Atlantic Ocean to the western world. 
Even after the abolition of the barbaric trade, they could not trace their way home nor situate exactly where their ancestors were found. The original slaves had died and so the information gotten was handed down. Most of them had lost count of some of the narrations and this explains why they could not easily trace their way home without a manual guide. With this, the search for the original home land continued by the offspring of the slaves. This nationalistic tendency continued right up to the 21st century and of recent, the voices of the offspring of Oku people captured and catapulted to the western world have been heard in many areas of the world. Their cry and those of their families home is for reunion. The question now is; what indicates that they were from Oku line? In their historical narration, the recounting of geographical features earlier mentioned like the lake (m...