The Gustavus Vassa/ Olaudah Equiano's 1789 interesting narratives about the horrors of slavery in Igbo land, Nigeria, and the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade
have elicited a lot of inquiry. However, Scholars working on slavery are yet to close the academic gaps in terms of ascertaining beyond the Igboness of Olaudah Equiano as challenged by Vincent Caretta. Stolen from his homeland,
Essaka in present-day Isseke in Orlu Division, Southeastern Nigeria, Equiano wrote his story of global slavery from 1745. The Equiano narratives, as one of the foremost African literatures written by an enslaved person, is yet to
be fully interpreted in terms of analyzing the in-depth meanings, names, and places mentioned in his slave narratives. This book, therefore, provides an intellectual history of Equiano's origins and his contribution in expressing the
horrors of slavery at the global stage
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UCHE UWAEZUOKE OKONKWO holds a PhD degree in History and
Strategic Studies from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was appointed Associate Professor of History and Diplomatic Studies at the Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria and was later appointed Becker Freidman Visiting Senior Research Associate and Scholar in residence at Kelly Centre Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, USA. He was a Pre-Conference Guest Lecturer at the Centre for Africana Studies 2024 at Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is the author of over 20 books, 100 articles in journals and chapters in book and over 200 conference papers. Uche's research interest is in the field of Social and Imperial History, an area of study he had acquired expertise in teaching and research at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Uche have received travel grants and fellowships to many countries and Universities from esteemed organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, Spencer Foundation, Volvo Foundation, University of Bayeruth African Multiple Cluster, the Dutch Foundation for the History of Technology, the Society for the History of Technology in Africa (SHOT) and the University of Lagos Graduate Fellowship.
