HISTORY OF EZEAGU

                                                                                                                                                      OZO TITLE (ECHI-CHI) AN EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK ‘OGHE PEOPLES AND CULTURE E-BOOK BY Chief (Hon) Ndu Oliver Kanayo (Ezedinaobi) Dip. Telecom (S/W Engr.), HND Acc, MBA Acc, ACM. Former Administrator, Ezeagu North Development Council. Phone: 08039572901 Email: nduoliverkanayo@gmail.com Ozo is the oldest and highest title in Igboland. Initiation into the aristocratic Nze na Ozo society marks the person as nobility. They sometimes bear the Ichi facial scarifications, described b...

 TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE ON IGBO NATION AN EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK ‘OGHE PEOPLES AND CULTURE E-BOOK BY Chief (Hon) Ndu Oliver Kanayo (Ezedinaobi) Dip. Telecom (S/W Engr.), HND Acc, MBA Acc, ACM. Former Administrator, Ezeagu North Development Council. Phone: 08039572901 Email: nduoliverkanayo@gmail.com Over the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas. The Atlantic Slave Trade was likely the most costly in human life of all long-distance global migrations. The first Africans forced to work in the New World left from Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century, not from Africa. The first voyage carrying enslaved people direct from Africa to the Americas were brought by the Spanish in 1526.   The number of people carried off from Africa reached 30,000 per year in the 1690s and 85,000 per year a century later. More than ei...