F. N., Okechukwu and A. O., Ugochukwu 2024. Man as Nature’s Prodigal: A Study of Environmental Degradation in South East Nigeria, 1990-2022. Journal of Advanced ...
Olaudah Equiano was sold into slavery, later acquired his freedom, and, in 1789, wrote his widely-read autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa ...
He vividly describes the way of life, customs and religion of his village in his narrative. KIDNAP AND THE HORROR OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE In 1756 Equiano and his sister were kidnapped by Aro peoples.
It was the first book written in the English language by an African, and it was called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The stories in the book were so powerful that ...
“I had never heard of white men or Europeans, nor of the sea”, he recalled later in life. In his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African ...
In his autobiography - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African - he wrote that he was born in Eboe province, in what is now southern Nigeria.
Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in Essaka, Benin, today's Southeastern Nigeria. By the 18th century the Atlantic Slave Trade was at its height with millions being kidnapped from the West Coast of ...
In the 1780s he emerged as the most prominent spokesman for the black community living in London. His autobiographical Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, which makes a strong case ...