I was today years old when I learned that OBJ wrote a biography of Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu (the main plotter and executor of the 1966 coup) back in the 80s. This might be old news to some but for those who did not know, now you know.
The Akan woman from Ghana who ended up as freedom fighter and heroine in jamaica The Queen Nanny of the Maroons. She was a former slave stolen the akan people of Ghana brought to Jamaica during the late 1700s. Maroons escaped slaves who formed their own independent settlements. Nanny and her 4 brothers, who were Maroon leaders, escaped their plantation and hid in the mountains and jungles in Jamaica. They created a village in the Blue Mountains where they took ...