The Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) is set to host an International Conference on resilience against slavery to commemorate the 220th years of Igbos who were forcefully migrated to the United States for slavery, ‘known as ‘Igbo Landing.’
Dr. Ikechukwu Erojikwe, the convener of the conference and a senior lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, UNN disclosed this in Nsukka on Monday while briefing newsmen.
He said that the event, slated to hold from May 23 to May 24, 2023, in UNN will feature a stage play titled “Ikenga: The Dramatic Recreation of the Igbo Landing Story,” and an exhibition that would capture the events of 1803 in various dimensions.
Erojikwe recalled that Igbo Landing was the first black civil rights movement in human history. When in 1803, 75 Igbos were captured by slave raiders in the Otuoch/Aguilera area of Anambra State, through the Omambala River to Calabar, and then to the United States of America. At Dunbar Creek in Georgia, The Igbo captive said no to slavery and walked into the sea in mass suicide.
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