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Associate Professor, Folklore, Ethnomusicology, and Intercultural Studies
 

The Nigerian Slave Routes Project

The information on this and all subsequent pages was gathered and compiled by Johnston A.K. Njoku from fieldwork conducted in Nigeria.  It is part of an ongoing project seeking to uncover aspects of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Africa.

 


Current Routes: Arochukwu


                                
                        Our Project                      Historical                            Figure

                                
                        One Can                          See Chains                        A Drum

                                
                        Animal                               Skulls                              Other


                                
                         Relics                               House                           Seventeenth


                                
                        Entrance                             Door                            Inside
 

                                
                        Descendents                       Okoro                           Oji


                                
                         Sitting                                Carved                            Gongs

                                
                        Bells                                   Cannons                         Costumes

                                
                        Large                                  Pots                                 More

             
Items                                 Culture                            Including

              
Silver                                 Jars                                 Podlock

              
Pictures                              Narrator                           Chief
                            
                                         Counters                                  



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