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The William Leo Hansberry Society presents
THE WILLIAM LEO HANSBERRY AFRICA ROUNDTABLE
“A VISION TORN ASUNDER”
Saturday, February 24, 2024
12:30 – 2:30 pm ET
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The Ewe ancestors who founded the settlements that fringed the Keta Lagoon basin in what is now Anlo in southeastern Ghana migrated from Notsie in central Togoland around the mid-seventeenth century. Political dissension and, most probably, land pressure were key motives in this migration. The Ewe migrants moved into the aquatic and…
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“Nubia is a historical territory that today is North Sudan and the southern part of Egypt. Generally it is assumed that Nubia covered the area along the Nile between the first and sixth Nile cataracts. Nubia formed a corridor along the Nile River, linking continental Africa and the Mediterranean. The fourth century CE brought the fall of Meroë…
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Various quotes discussing the Igbo and resistance during the era of enslavement.
“During the first wave of the incursion, the Aro deployed the Abam to kidnap Ebiri people, forcing them to flee from their original homeland in Oroni to a new location presently called Eke-Igbere. The flight of the Emir might have helped them become more vigilant…
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