Igbo

This is the case for Igbo Landing, which rightfully could be considered a slave rebellion.

As this story of resistance goes, shackled and connected to one another, they walked into the waters of Dunbar Creek chanting in Igbo, “The Sea brought me and the Sea will take me home.”

Yet the history is often obscured, like that of Igbo Landing.

Even as someone that’s looking for a husband out here in these streets, I have parents that would love for me to marry an Igbo man.

In my research, I examined several petitions written by Igbo women to British officials during the colonial period.

There, thousands of Igbo people were massacred; in other parts of Nigeria, they were attacked, arrested, harassed.

The Igbo say that we only truly die when no one remembers our name, not even our family.

Chika, a well-to-do young Igbo woman, has been pulled to safety in a deserted shop by a Hausa Muslim woman.