How My Great-Granddad Sold Slaves – Adaobi Nwaubani
July 19, 2020
9:22 am
Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani has revealed that one of her ancestors sold slaves, in an article published by BBC.
She also reveals that slave trading, despite the abolition in 1807 by the British, continued in Nigeria till the early 1950s.
But she argues that her ancestor, her great grandfather, should not be judged by todayβs standards or valuesβ¦
My great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku, was what I prefer to call a businessman, from the Igbo ethnic group of south-eastern Nigeria. He dealt in a number of goods, including tobacco and palm produce. He also sold human beings.…
