DrinksOne Brands has announced a new partnership with Equiano Rum, a blend of African and Caribbean rums. Under this agreement, DrinksOne Brands will become the exclusive distributor of Equiano Rum ...

Equiano was born in Essaka, a small village in Benin, in 1745. His father was an Embrenche, an elder or chief, and oversaw disputes and punishments. He had five brothers and one sister, and was ...

Captured far from the African coast when he was a boy of 11, Olaudah Equiano was sold into slavery, later acquired his freedom, and, in 1789, wrote his widely-read autobiography, The Interesting ...

Nigel Clarke celebrates the life and work of the eighteenth century anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, once an enslaved person himself. Hi, I'm Nigel, and I'm a TV presenter. I was born and ...

Olaudah Equiano earned enough to buy his way out of slavery and became a leading abolitionist A river bridge in Cambridge has been renamed after an African anti-slavery activist Olaudah Equiano in ...