BabaRamota1980:


He is Igala. His family settled and lived in Ibo country for commercial trade. When he was kidnapped by a yanminri he already spoke Ibo language.

There is nothing in his name or looks that feature Ibo roots. The man is not Ibo.

is that what your ogbomosho school curriculum taught you guys?
Lols,
He remains an autentic Igbo man, twistng history chnges nothing

It's only on Nigeria Own Google don't think it's for the whole world to see

Na wa o, Igbos don suffer. if anioma person sey hin b Igbo, Yoruba n Hausa go dey tell am sey hin no b Igbo! na una go tell person where hin come from? a man just documented dat he is Igbo and haters re here saying rubbish. Igbo no follow una drag ajayi crowther, leave Olaudah for us.

Why not just read his book and leave all these bad blood. I wonder who edited the Wikipedia page this morning around 10:45 am to his taste. Read his autobiography. Wikipedia has to do something about this editing.

HermajestyQ:
:DNigerians are so funny!!! With the debate whether he was of Igbo or igala origin, i actually went to check him out on wikipedia! Alas, Olauda was neither Igbo nor igala. He's autobiography says he was from Essaka in Benin, Nigeria. Someone please help me with the state where Essaka is in Nigeria.

I actually always thought he was a benin man.

Me am not understanding o. Oladuah eqiano was kidnaped from present day ANIOMA, DELTA STATE not ANAMBRA STATE. Why do you people want to claim what is not?

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NIGHTMAREOO7:


My friend, igbo he is !!

[/s]Claiming claimer as usual. Ole, When did edo man become igbo man. He's from etsako in edo state. Oleeeee. Gbewiri.

y was my grand father or great grand father not sold into slavery then,i wud not have been in this country.

Equiano, a pure Igbo man from Anambra. Look up the BBC report and his biography.

BabaRamota1980:


He is Igala. His family settled and lived in Ibo country for commercial trade. When he was kidnapped by a yanminri he already spoke Ibo language.

There is nothing in his name or looks that feature Ibo roots. The man is not Ibo.

Please get this...the name of the tribe and language is "Igbo" and not "Ibo"!

BakireBulmaker:
What does Olaudah mean in Igbo language?

that was the name given to him by the British?

you can find the story on BBC YouTube channel

then whether his is Igbo,Igala or Benin doesn't make me or any one of us less or more of a human being

my biggest problem is the federal government that has stopped the teaching of history in schools,if we don't know our past we end up with a distorted mindset

bestview:
Anambra born Olaudah Equiano did the entire black race proud.

See this one dey call am anambra hehehehehe.

I've unfollwed this thread about three times. Stop following me.

LOL..."an area in Guinea called Eboe".

Pigsandidiots:
[s][/s]Claiming claimer as usual. Ole, When did edo man become igbo man. He's from etsako in edo state. Oleeeee. Gbewiri.

is you people that want to steal someone tribe ole

Mynd44, Lalasticlala, Seun, I've unfollowed this thread but the posts keep coming in.

Read below to be informed. We are dealing with facts here. See the highlighted part.

Pigsandidiots:
See this one dey call am anambra hehehehehe.

The hall was silent. The atmosphere was tense. Screams and wailings of children, women and men filled the air. Heads bowed in deep reflection. Some raised their eyes upwards looking at the ceiling. Many tried hard to fight back tears.

It was no funeral wake but the screening of a film, entitled: The Slave Route: The Soul of Resistance. The 36-minute documentary showed the sufferings of the era, focused on the transatlantic slave trade. It reconciled the history, influences and rationale behind the various characters involved in the era.

The screening was part of the activities marking this year’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic slave trade organised by the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Lagos, in collaboration with African Anti-Slavery Coalition (ASLAC).

This year’s theme: Forever Free: Celebrating Emancipations reechoed the age-long advocacy for freedom, especially by the victims of slavery.


As guests walked into the lecture hall, they were first confronted with the pictures and stories of some of the heroes of emancipation like Phillis Wheatley, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Olaudah Equiano (an ex-lbo slave who was kidnapped from Isseke Village in present-day Anambra State), Frederick Douglas and more. But nothing prepared them for the film.

According to the organisers, the screening was meant to involve the young generation in the campaign against slavery. UNIC Officer in-charge, Mrs Olajumoke Araba, who read the UN chief’s speech, said: “The film paints an apt picture. And we can see that there are lessons for everybody learn from what happened during the period, especially the pupils. It is hoped that involving the young ones would ignite in them the need to carry on the fight against all forms of racism and slavery. Even though the programme fell during their examination period and when many schools are on holiday, we were glad for the ones that came. Each watched with deep concentration and I’m sure it has improved their knowledge of history.”

The era, sad as it was, produced great minds like Wheatley who became one of the most accomplished writers, it was learnt. She published her first poem at age 12. Born in Senegambia in 1753, she was sold into slavery at the age of 7 and transported to North America. She was purchased by the Wheatley family of Boston, who taught her to read and write, and encouraged her poetry when they saw her talent.

Despite the rare opportunities she had as a slave, she probably would have preferred to be free, it was said. Perhaps that is why the United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-moon describes slavery “as a global crime against humanity”. Wheatley and other key figures, who fought to eliminate slavery, with many losing their lives in the process, he said, are heroes and heroines of the emancipation. And the day is a tribute to the struggles of that era.

Ki-moon said: “On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, we tell the world to never forget this global crime against humanity… As we reflect on the contemporary consequences of this tragedy, let us remember the bravery of those who risked everything for freedom and those who helped them on that perilous path.

“Their courage should inspire us as we struggle against contemporary forms of slavery, racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related intolerance. On this day, let us pledge to honour and restore the dignity of affected people and to intensify efforts to eliminate the slavery that persists in our world”.




Advocating through film

The film’s heartbreaking scenes of sufferings and maltreatment of African slaves not only painted a vivid picture and degradation of the era, but also buttressed Mr Olufemi Phillips, a human rights activist’s the lecture by on the theme at a forum before the screening.

Beyond the academic rigour, Philips, who is the co-founder of ASLAC, had a unique story to tell. He is a descendant of one of the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, who returned during the abolition. Reflecting on the period, he said, brought back sad memories that are better forgotten.

He recounted: “The transatlantic slave trade can never be erased from the memories of some Africans, especially those whose great-great-great-grandparents or ancestors were victims. My late great grandmother was captured during the Ogedengbe war at Ikole-Ekiti. She was a princess from lloti compound, forced to trek from Ikole-Ekiti up to Badagry coastal area, where she was sold to Brazilian slave traders that transported her and others to Bahia, Brazil. My great-grandmother survived the slavery and during the abolition of slave trade in Brazil, she returned back to West Africa where she first settled at Greenhouse present day Republic of Benin and later on traced her son’s home at 177, Igbosere Road, Lagos Island. There are many returnee slaves such as Do-Regos, De-Souza, Delfonso, Pinheiro, Da-Rocha, Jorge Campos, Da -Silva, Da-Costa, Martins, Ferreira, Pereira etc.”

He described the era as being an “ugly incident that had brought Africa back retrogressively”. He, however, lamented that unfortunately Africans are still experiencing all sorts of enslavement, noting that the worst of it is, “self-enslavement”, which he linked to bad governance. He said there is the need for all-round emancipation, while calling for a proactive approach involving the government, civil societies and the public, so that better results can be achieved.

He said: “However, it is sad that Africans are no longer sold against their will or forced into slavery but are freely giving themselves to all forms of enslavement. Every day, many, especially the young, are constantly crossing their borders to enslave themselves because of poverty. We see history repeating itself with the case of Equiano, who was kidnapped from his homeland into slavery; centuries later, nothing has changed. The place is still plagued with many cases of kidnappings.

“Young ladies are constantly being tricked into enslavement in the guise of employment. And this is the offshoot of bad governance and corruption in Africa. Africans are not enjoying the dividend of democracy that is why many are freely opting for enslavement abroad. Corruption has become a dreaded virus in our system. We, members of the civil societies, in collaboration with government, security operatives and the public, need to do more in our campaigns, to address the precedence.”

The film, he said, brought to life the pains of that period. As the audience, who were mainly pupils, history teachers, diplomats and the media, watched with mixed emotions, it was evident that scenes borrowed from diverse slavery films, such as Roots, perhaps helped to drive the plot. But unlike those films, its characters, consisting slaves (women, men and children), those born into slavery, man hunters, slave traders and more, told their sides of the story as if trying to convince the audience in a debate scenario.

The accounts of Juan, a boy born into slavery in Cuba that saw his father, who had made several escape attempts, hanged; Lala, a girl from the kingdom of Congo, was captured by man hunters while trying to gather firewood to cook dinner and Musa, who was waiting for his initiation to become a hunter like his ancestors, was captured and sold to an Arab merchant and died during the operation when he was being castrated to become a eunuch, which was very expensive in those days.



The young speak out for emancipation

At the end of the screening, guests, especially the pupils did not take the experience with a pinch of salt. Apparently moved by the film, they spoke with deep emotions against slavery.

After watching the film, Tolulope Oke, SS Three, Kings College, was heartbroken. “Going by what we saw, it was also embarrassing to see that people were treated like animals,” he said. “I asked myself: “how would they have felt then?’ It was quite heartbreaking to see an African being maltreated like that. It enlightened me more. It also taught me how to fight back when being oppressed and how to face challenges of life.”

Tofunmi Ajao, Dowen College, was enraged. She said: “Watching the film has helped me acquire more understanding of the period. I felt very sorrowful watching it. It is an experience you’d wish the whites would never start all over again for whatsoever reasons. And for some reasons, you’d wish that we could retaliate because it’s just as if they went away with it. I heard certain mitigation was made, especially financially; but money is not enough, did you see what they did; money can’t cover all the pain they caused.”

On the part of Olayemi Awolade SS2, Dowen College, the film awakened in him a sense of advocacy. “Watching the film, we saw the slavery in a different light; and that it is our time to change things and end all forms of slavery.”

For History tutor, Dowen College, Ogundeji Elijah, the film is a good teaching aid where the pupils were able to see what they were taught in class. This, he said, would give them a better understanding of how to tackle the period.



The celebrations of emancipation

In the same vein, this year’s celebration was particularly unique as it marked several global milestones in the eradication of slavery. They include the 150th year anniversary of Abraham Lincoln issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing millions of African-Americans from enslavement; the 180th anniversary of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 in the British Empire; also in 1833, slavery ended in Canada, the British West Indies and the Cape of Good Hope. Others include the Indian Slavery Act of 1843 signed some 170 years ago; in France, slavery was abolished 165 years ago; Argentina (160 years ago) and the former Dutch colonies (150 years ago), among others


https://www.google.com.ng/amp/thenationonlineng.net/sad-memories-of-slavery/amp/

fidalgo19:
It's only on Nigeria Own Google
don't think it's for the whole world to see

The whole world. I am on holiday in Europe, I can see it in European Google

How did they know today is his birthday? Who took record of his birth?

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bestview:
Equiano, a pure Igbo man from Anambra. Look up the BBC report and his biography.

[/s]Stop your rubbish lies. Anambra ko, azambro ni. Why you no mention his village for anambra. So my brother's kid that were born in portharcourt is from portaharcourt abi, or and igbo man born in ekiti is from ekiti. He's is edo Man from etsako.

Is obvious the guy himself was confused about his Origin, even articles links on Google Search said there is a controversy over his Origin so who are we to say he is Edo, Eboe or whatever abeg make we rest, he was a great man from West Africa, Nigeria simple as ABC.

Pigsandidiots:
[s][/s]Stop your rubbish lies. Anambra ko, azambro ni. Why you no mention his village for anambra. So my brother's kid that were born in portharcourt is from portaharcourt abi, or and igbo man born in ekiti is from ekiti. He's is edo Man from etsako.

Igbo-phobia is bad for your blood pressure.
Igbo amaka

dominique:
How did they know today is his birthday? Who took record of his birth?

Hello, Dominique, I know you are a mod. Please help unfollow me from this thread. Thank you.

IamLaura:

Edo ko bini ni �
Lol funny you quoting Wikipedia as a credible source,even I can edit and add anything I want on a Wikipedia page.
Nigerians don't read,If you had read his book you'll have seen where he proudly named his village and the culture of his people which clearly showed he was IGBO.
Why are you pple so scared of igbos greatness that's you choose to believe lies to make urselves feel good?Quite pathetic I must say.No matter how hard you guys try to distort history,unfortunately the world knows the truth.
Stop being ignorant and read a book.

Scholar,please tell us the name of the village.?You guys just love distorting history

Read BBC report and his biography. Stop crying over nothing. He is Igbo from Anambra.

Pigsandidiots:
[s][/s]Stop your rubbish lies. Anambra ko, azambro ni. Why you no mention his village for anambra. So my brother's kid that were born in portharcourt is from portaharcourt abi, or and igbo man born in ekiti is from ekiti. He's is edo Man from etsako.

Amarabae:
is that what your ogbomosho school curriculum taught you guys?
Lols,
He remains an autentic Igbo man, twistng history chnges nothing

Message to BabaRamota1980

Igbo-phobia dulls the intellect, reduces IQ and results in zombie-ism, mumu-ism, dullardism and other social vices.

lenghtinny:
If you read his biography carefully, you will know that Olaudah is igbo, but it seems his hometown was under the powerful old Benin kingdom at the time...

So how come some people here are mentioning Anambra?

Was the interior of Anambra under Benin kingdom too?

tishbite41:
Na wa o, Igbos don suffer. if anioma person sey hin b Igbo,

When Anioma itself is an Igbo word that means beautiful (oma) land (ani).