{"id":15715,"date":"2020-07-25T10:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=15715"},"modified":"2020-07-25T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T15:05:03","slug":"my-nigerian-great-grandfather-sold-slaves-adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-nigerian-journalist-at-bbc-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/my-nigerian-great-grandfather-sold-slaves-adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-nigerian-journalist-at-bbc-com\/","title":{"rendered":"My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves &#8212; Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani &#8211; Nigerian journalist at BBC.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/my-nigerian-great-grandfather-sold-slaves-by-adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-at-bbc-news-july-19-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/my-nigerian-great-grandfather-sold-slaves-by-adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-at-bbc-news-july-19-2020.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/my-nigerian-great-grandfather-sold-slaves-by-adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-at-bbc-news-july-19-2020-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BBC.com<\/strong><br>by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani<br>July 19th, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;He had agents who captured slaves from different places and brought them to him,&#8221; my father told me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nwaubani Ogogo&#8217;s slaves were sold through the ports of Calabar and Bonny in the south of what is today known as Nigeria.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nwaubani Ogogo lived in a time when the fittest survived and the bravest excelled. The concept of &#8220;all men are created equal&#8221; was completely alien to traditional religion and law in his society.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-nigerian-slave-owner-article.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-nigerian-slave-owner-article.png 584w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-nigerian-slave-owner-article-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Assessing the people of Africa&#8217;s past by today&#8217;s standards would compel us to cast the majority of our heroes as villains, denying us the right to fully celebrate anyone who was not influenced by Western ideology.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-53444752\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-53444752<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC.comby Adaobi Tricia NwaubaniJuly 19th, 2020 Excerpt: 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. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/my-nigerian-great-grandfather-sold-slaves-adaobi-tricia-nwaubani-nigerian-journalist-at-bbc-com\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4743,4754,12,4672,4758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kenyabornobama","category-kenyanbornobama","category-lucas-daniel-smith","category-lucas-smith-birther","category-obama-birther-2020"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15723,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15715\/revisions\/15723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}