 Some doubt surrounds his family surname.Horton may have come from his great-grandfather, Moses Pindar Horton, a liberated African slave originally from Benin.Despite Dafora's own assertion in program notes for "Kykunkor" that his great-grandfather was a freed slave, dates indicate it was in fact Dafora's grandfather [James Horton] who experienced slavery and who was repatriated to Sierra Leone.