Seeds of Awakening: The Creation of Oyotunji African Kingdom: The First 25 Years 1970 - 1995 - Paperbackby H. R. G. Iya Orite Olasowo Adefunmi (Author), Raining Deer (Foreword by) In 1970 the Kingdom of Oyotunji arose in the southern low country shadowed by plantations where once enslaved Africans harvested South Carolina gold rice and Gullah Geechee lore resisted erasure. The seeds of awakening were being planted by Walter Eugene King and a dedicated group of African Americans amid the chaos of the civil rights struggle, the Black Power movement and