OzikoroThe Igbos and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Anụ ọkụ n’ụlọ anaghị amaghị ọkụ dị n’èzí”
“Anụ ọkụ n’ụlọ anaghị amaghị ọkụ dị n’èzí” (The animal that lives in the fire at home does not know the fire outside). This saying captures the shock the Igbo felt when the Atlantic slave trade dragged them from the familiar fires of their hearths into the flames of foreign bondage. Between the 16th and…