PROBING OUR PAST: THE STORY OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO
Olaudah Equiano was born about 1745 of Igbo parents in a village he called “Essaka, near Benin”, which has been identified as Iseke in Ihiala local government area of Anambra State. This identification was done by the late Catherine Acholonu in a work of remarkable scholarship. ‘Equiano’ was probably a corruption of ‘Ekweano’, with the […]
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