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Sunday, October 22, 2017
Olaudah Equiano : the audacity of a slave.
Black is beautiful,they say but BLACK IS POWER. Black is power ,demonstrated in the lives of many great BLACK people of which Olaudah Equiano is a part of.Olaudah Equiano, the Igbo slave, who played key role in the abolition of slave trade after becoming free 270 years ago.
The history of black literature will not be complete without the name of Olaudah Equiano. He was an African writer, abolitionist, seaman and civil rights campaigner who was enslaved, but later became the most prominent Black anti-slavery activist and lobbyist in 18th century Britain.
He is popularly held to be the country’s first Black political leader. Equiano is believed to have been born to the Igbos of Nigeria around 1745. He was only 11 years old when he was kidnapped from his village and enslaved alongside his sister.
They were separated from each other and Equiano was shipped across to Barbados, surviving the horrifying journey on board a slave ship. Having survived the harrowing experience across the sea, he fell into the hands of wicked masters who brutalised him in no smaller measures. Equiano wrote in his autobiography:
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