The Fraud of Alex Haley's "Roots"

I recently watched the miniseries "Roots" and "Roots: The Next Generations" for the first time and found both to be excellent productions that were extremely moving. However, it turns out that they might be more fiction than fact:

"[T]he story of just what Haley brought off is an example of how history and tragic fact can be pillaged by an individual willing to exploit whatever the naive might consider sacred."

From http://articles.nydailynews.com/1998-04-12/news/18069737_1_hoax-philip-nobile-african-ancestry