Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

Ken, what part of the account of Equiano's life in Africa don't you believe? The very vivid account of his abduction, with his sister, and his journeys through the slave underground, and his first encounter with that hulk of a ship? Equiano gives details that could, if you know that part of the world with a little intimacy, not be mistaken. But I would really love to know what makes his account of his later life more credible than his recollection of his early life,  just of a stripling lad in Africa. There has to be some serious narrative data or arc that should seem untranslatable, that should make you so leary. Would you care to share these? Because I too, having read Equiano over and over, still marvel at the power of his recall; the significations encoded in the matrix of cultural detail, that could not have been available to anyone else other than one who had first hand experience of that culture. So, what exact detail in the narrative seems off for you about his life in Africa?

Obi Nwakanma

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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Kenneth Harrow <harrow@msu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 4:54 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

 

Having read his autobiography I must say I don't believe any of the part that describes his life in Africa. After that, it starts to read as a credible account.

His voice grows increasingly powerful as we get the description ofhis serving inthebritish navy, as buying his own freedom and dealing in slaves himself, and most of all, when he tried and failed to return to Africa as a missionary. And then as the famous abolitionist.

His date of birth can't have been known, of course; he couldhave estimated.

ken

 

 

Kenneth Harrow

Dept of English and Film Studies

Michigan State University

619 Red Cedar Rd

East Lansing, MI 48824

517-803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/

 

From: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com>
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Date: Monday, 16 October 2017 at 13:42
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

 

How on earth did they know when Olaudah Equainor was born?

 

CAO.

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