My great grandfather was a slave trader

The World

Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s great-grandfather sold his fellow Africans across the Atlantic. Now his Nigerian descendants are looking at his legacy in a new way. Nwaubani talks with host Marco Werman.

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