Essaka

In a charming and fruitful vale, called Essaka, in one of the most remote and fertile provinces of this kingdom, I was born in the year 1745.

Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race. 1848

Equally revealing in his review is his emphasis on the claims of pro-slavery newspaper writers that Equiano was not born in Africa, over and against the discovery by the Nigerian anthropologist, Catherine Obianju Acholonu that Equiano is remembered in an oral history of his family in the very region in Africa where he said he was born — "Essaka," in his spelling, now Isseke.

'The Many-Headed Hydra': An Exchange Linebaugh, Peter 2001

I'm told on good authority that she has not achieved agreement even on the location of "Essaka" and is not taken seriously by either ethnolinguists or anthropologists.

'The Many-Headed Hydra': An Exchange Linebaugh, Peter 2001

In a charming and fruitful vale, called Essaka, in one of the most remote and fertile provinces of this kingdom, I was born in the year 1745. "

God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited H.G. Adams 1854

A Douala canton chief, HM Essaka Ekwalla, is calling on his subjects to ignore the skeptics and rush to be vaccinated.

Cameroon Launches Massive Swine Flu Vaccine Campaign 2010

In the province of Essaka, the inhabitants were far removed from the baneful influence of a slave trade which was carried on along the coast.

Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising 1887

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol. I. 1789

I was born, in the year 1745, in a charming fruitful vale, named Essaka.

The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African Equiano, Olaudah 1789