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Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World: History, Society, and Atlantic Diaspora Connections CHIMA J. KORIEH, ED. Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 2009. xiv + 407 pp. ISBN 1-59221-665-X paper.
Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World comprises seventeen essays of wide-ranging quality by nonacademic and academic authors from various disciplines. The core essays are based on papers given at a 2007 conference on Olaudah Equiano in Nigeria. The collection needs to be approached with great care because it is so poorly edited for style and content. What other than careless editing can account for sentences such as "Equiano is a fresh thesis who deserves study in issues relating to doubts and contempt of African identity and personality" (130)? Names are often misspelled, publications misattributed, and flawed, abridged, and/or modernized editions of Equiano's Interesting...