Delta Publications to release new book on race relations
Chief Dillibe Onyeama, CEO of Delta Publications
(Nigeria) Limited describes the book as the ‘most beautiful, insightful and
compelling historical books ever published on the blending of races’.
The author, Professor Ihekweazu, a German academic who
is married to a Nigerian has produced in the book, a rich result of outstanding
research covering many centuries that exposes a scarcely known aspect of the
stunning experiences of African travelers of of the past.
The blurb says “ The... book follows a wide cross-section
of African travellers their adventurous
discovery of the Western world - from the 17th-century Igbo slave Olaudah
Equiano, to the 18th-century Ugandan statesman Sir Apolo Kwagwa; from the
19th-century Hausa servants Dorugu and Abbega through to such modern-day
travellers as Buchi Emecheta the "Second
Class Citizen", Mugo Gatheru the "Child of Two Worlds", Dillibe Onyeama the "Nigger at Eton", John Pepper
Clark's the "America, their America", Camara Laye,
Chinweizu, and many other fascinating Africans from all walks of life.’
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