The Nation Newspaper ‘We are Ukwuani; not Igbo’ ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Throughout history, the Black voice has never been silent. It has been a voice that cried out against injustice, a voice that demanded to be heard. Self-love isn’t soft — it’s radical. It’s ...

Throughout history, the Black voice has never been silent.

The historic '10 Million Names' project is working to identify every individual enslaved before 1865 in the present-day United States.

It also covers Olaudah’s capture and enslavement on the boat. In later highlights, the film takes on a more serious air after Equiano is captured; nonetheless, there are inspiring moments and ...

An image of Olaudah Equiano featured in the frontispiece of his memoir. Wikimedia Commons There is a painting in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in England that tends to make onlookers stop.

Equiano’s 1789 “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself,” which is sometimes considered the forebear of narratives on ...

Google’s private subsea cables all carry the names of historical luminaries. Equiano is named after Olaudah Equiano, a Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist who was enslaved as a boy.