• Question: what is the African ancestry

    Asked by to Olaudah Equiano on 4 Oct 2022. This question was also asked by .
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      Olaudah Equiano answered on 4 Oct 2022:

      Great question! According to Equiano himself he was from the Eboe (Igbo) region of the Kingdom of Benin in the south of what is now known as Nigeria. Equiano tells us that his father was an elder in the village.

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