Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Remember the name Olaudah Equiano from college? Alot of required reading lists included his autobiography; one of the only first-person narratives of a captive slave traveling the Middle Passage to America. But some say it’s not exactly accurate. We look at what is known (and what remains unknown) about Olaudah Equiano.
Guests
- Vincent Carretta Professor of English, University of Maryland; Senior Fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute of African and African American Research; also author of "Equiano, The African: Biography of a Self-Made Man" (Univ. of Georgia)
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