The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano

[MissNatLee]

Got an english test on Equianos Narrative on Monday.

[bolaj1]

@elmendozas i was researching on this story and saw ur music video bt i would love 2 put this in my research note but i dont noe the lyric, i would if u culd email it 2 me cuz i want 2 put it in my research paper which is due next week Thursday

[MaylissaMuttenchop]

Olaudah Equiano was not Nigerian. He was West African as most of those captured for slave trade were. Specifically he was from what was known as Benin. One thing I don't agree with is how this video is stating that it was Americans...it was not known as the Americas at the time that slave trading began but rather The New World. Other than that...good song.

[impodds]

@MaylissaMuttenchop Ok benin and not the Republic of Benin is a part of Nigeria. He was also an igbo man.

[Bobsyermomsuncle]

@MaylissaMuttenchop The Americas were known as America; the districts or colonies on the other hand were known as New England, New France, New Spain,

[dakboyyall]

@MaylissaMuttenchop nigeria is in west Africa.

[patsyd80]

its funny how americans just claim their heros from other people. this guy was english dam it. greetings from london......................he­y.

[Oobs26]

@patsyd80 ummm sorry, olauda equiano was nigerian. captured as a boy and taken to america. He lived in america for shortly b4 he was sold to an englishman when he was about 12. Im not sure if that qualifies him as english. bit id say that hes Nigerian.

[neobrown81]

He is considered english because he chose to live and marry in Britain. It was his British friends who encouraged him to write his memoir.

[berbaruner418]

can you post the lyrics, I am interested in showing this to my U.S> History class

[SassanianSuperiorAll]

Though he travelled widely, he never returned to the USA. Nor did he ever again see his native Africa to which he dreamed of returning.

He defined himself to the end of his life, simply as "the African"

[RPZed]

If you read his book you will see that he returned frequently to the US as a freeman to Charleston, Philadelphia (where he first encountered the Quakers) and New York, as well as travelling to the Arctic as part of a scientific expedition, Turkey, all over the Caribbean and around the UK and the counties of Ireland and this is by no means an exhaustive itinerary.

As to him being English. He was an Igbo, which would by today's borders make him Nigerian. He worked and lived in England and it was

[RPZed]

ironically one of the only places he felt himself safe from being sold back into slavery. Though it's nice that we can feel compelled to appropriate him for ourselves, I doubt his contemporaries would have had the same illusions as to his nationality, seeing as the government sought to deport the considerable black population of London to Sierra Leone (See Chapter 12, 'The Interesting Narrative..' for Equiano's role in this scheme).

[elmendozas]

@Tresbela-If i used to many big words i couldnt "teach it to the babies" they wouldn't get it. If you want to see me use big words and eloquent phrases that appeal to the middly in you then buy the Sunday Times (UK)- I write in it sometimes.1

[elmendozas]

Tresbela- simple English is what simple slave folk understand best and this one is really for them- it is not a rendition of Oluaudah Equianos writnings at all- merely to raise the awarenes among the people of his existence see- so far just here 2,352 people have become aware of his name. I have seen already many times people ask me who he is then go and find his works. So simple English it is.

[patsyd80]

real good tune by the way. and a great way, as you say to get more people hearing of my man oolaudah. voted one of englands most important people but is not really that widely know. peace.

[elmendozas]

SusanReyna- I know who has the lyrics- I wrote them and directed this video and made this beat- 1

[wicho9195]

what the heck is up with the picture at frst with the man that has giant eyes it creeped me out!!!

ahhh!!

[Amersfoort71]

He's Equiano, the father of African Literature...an abolitionist in the 18th century, a slave. His narrative is an important document about eh Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

[SusanReyna]

Any one have the lyrics to this available in printed format?

[TRESBELA]

hmm..i have mixed feelings about this one. not exactly the best rendition of one of the greatest literary writers of our times. sorry but the beats, the basic rhymes don't bring equiano justice. let his words speak for themselves. he was a brilliant writer this is just simple english.