My Nigerian Great Grandfather, NWAUBANI ERASMUS OGOGO ORIAKU Greatest Slave Trader in Bite of Niger Delta-ADAOBI Tricia Nwaubani, poet
…gained power and wealth by selling African men, women and children across the Atlantic, carried slave-trading license from the Royal Niger Company in southern Nigeria

*Agents of my great grand father captured Igbo slaves across the region, passed them to middlemen through the ports of Bonny/Calabar and sold them to white merchants
*African local leaders hand over their daughters in marriage to him to secure his favor, had dozens of wives, a leopard was killed; six slaves were buried alive with him in death
*Influence drew the attention of colonial officials who appointed him chief of Umujieze and several other towns, presided over court cases, established churches and schools
*Built a guest house, played host to British dignitaries on land where my parents’ home now stands
*Descendants of freed slaves in southern Nigeria called ohu still facing significant stigma, Igbo culture forbids from marrying freeborn people, denies traditional leadership titles such as Eze and Ozo
* Our family dissociates ourselves from our great grand father’s wickedness, we are seeking the face of God for mercy, we feel our family is cursed
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This is very sad

This foolish news from 2014? It has gotten a resurgence? This is why I hold no hope for investigative journalism in this country when everyone copy-pastes then regurgitate when they deem fit. We no get journalists, oh, them no dey this country.

Our family dissociates ourselves from our great grand father’s wickedness, we are seeking the face of God for mercy, we feel our family is cursed

The man and the people he antagonized are busy sharing war stories in the afterlife. Whatever you do on earth means nothing once the soul leaves the body. Hitler has many Jewish friends in the world beyond.

Descendants of freed slaves in southern Nigeria called ohu still facing significant stigma, Igbo culture forbids from marrying freeborn people, denies traditional leadership titles such as Eze and Ozo.

They were likely from different clans so the situation is fitting. How were they traced anyway? Did the white man ever give the chance for slaves to return to Igbo land or their country of origin? I know it happened with the Portuguese. I don’t remember it happening with the British.

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