Aug. 10—The 10th annual IGBO Worldwide Festival of Arts and Culture will memorialize Igbo Landing by presenting culture, art, music and language on Friday and Saturday at Selden Park. The event will ...

Not only is The Igbo Landing a place located on St. Simons Island in Glynn County, Georgia, but it also signifies the poignant tale of Igbo captives from Nigeria who were forcefully transported to the ...

In May 1803 a group of enslaved Africans from present-day Nigeria, of Ebo or Igbo descent, leaped from a single-masted ship into Dunbar Creek off St. Simons Island in Georgia. A slave agent concluded ...

GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. — A new historical marker is coming to Glynn County to honor the lives of a tribe from Africa who chose death over slavery in the early 1800s. The push to commemorate the Igbo ...

The Igbo Landing refers to the mass suicide of Igbo slaves in 1803 who chose to die than live a life of slavery. The middle passage is the movement of captured Africans through the Atlantic Ocean ...

ABUJA – The call for reparations and historical justice continues to grow, with renewed attention on the Igbo Landing tragedy of 1803. Chukwuebuka Anyaduba, a consultant to the Nigerian Senate ...

“So I have a goal to teach 1,803 students how to swim. And I got that number from the Igbo Landing mass suicide, which happened in 1803,” swim instructor Kym Finch said. Igbo Landing is a site in ...

MT. PLEASANT, Utah (KUTV) — A trip of a lifetime doesn’t always require going out of the country. Some of the most life-changing trips can happen within a short distance from home. That’s what ...