Olaudah Equiano was a remarkable person in British history. He was snatched from his home, country and culture in West Africa at the age of eleven and not only did he survive captivity, deprivation, ...

Introduction: Mapping the Igbo-Atlantic connection / Chima J. Korieh -- (Re)Imagining community : Olaudah Equiano and the (re)construction of Igbo (African) identity / Maureen N. Eke -- The Igbo roots ...

It began as a presentation during Black History Month in London to celebrate the annual UK event in October and has now evolved, four years later, into the publication of a children’s book about one ...

A 1789 book sparked abolitionist sentiment by describing the brutality of the slave trade. But today the story tells us so much more than that. There is a painting in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum ...

Equiano seemed reluctant to tell his story. He claimed that he was a "private and obscure individual" and "neither a saint, a hero, nor a tyrant." One thing he realized, though, was that his life was ...