MEDIA RELEASE Air Niugini is pleased to announce that following the establishment and opening of refuelling facilities on 01st February by our partners, OTML and Pacific Energy Aviation Limited (PEAL), Air Niugini has resumed its flights to Kiunga and Tabubil effective from yesterday, Sunday 02nd February. Air Niugini is both pleased and relieved that compliant, sustainable, and appropriate jet fuel solutions have now been re-established in Tabubil, Kiunga, Mount Hagen and Lae. This collaborative effort between OTML, PEAL and the airline is essential for maintaining safe flight operations for our valued customers travelling to and from Kiunga and Tabubil. The availability of fuel at these four locations will also now permit the airline to carry more passengers and freight on routes to other Highlands and Momase destinations. We look forward to the establishment of similar fuel facilities at locations such as Rabaul and Vanimo so that we can increase o...
From Nigeria, Equiano, also known as (Gustavus Vassa), was kidnapped from his village at the age of eleven, shipped through the grueling "Middle Passage" of the Atlantic Ocean, hardened in the West Indies and sold to a Virginia planter. He was later bought by a British naval Officer, Captain Pascal, as a present for his cousins in London. After ten years of enslavement throughout the North America, where he assisted his merchant slave master and worked as a seaman, Equiano bought his freedom.
At the age of forty-four he wrote and published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African. He registered this writing at Stationer’s Hall, London, in 1789. More than two centuries later, his work was recognized not only as one of the first works written in English by a former slave, but perhaps more important as the paradigm of the slave narrative, a (then) new literary genre. In his narrative, Equiano recalls his childhood in Essaka (an Igbo village formerly in northeast Nigeria), where he was adorned in the tradition of the "greatest warriors."
He was unique in his remembrance of traditional African life before the advent of the European slave trade. Equally significant is Equiano’s life on the high seas, which included not only travels throughout the Americas, Turkey, and the Mediterranean, but also participation in major naval battles during the French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War), as well as in the search for a northwest passage led by the Phipps expedition of 1772-1773.
Equiano also records his central role, along with Granville Sharpe, in the British Abolitionist Movement. As a major voice in this movement, Equiano petitioned the Queen of England in 1788. He was appointed to the expedition to settle London’s poor Blacks in Sierra Leone, a British colony on the West Coast of Africa. Sadly, he did not complete the journey back to his native land. Equiano’s autobiography became a best seller, equal (at the time) in popularity by Robinson Crusoe.
He published nine different editions before his death, including an American edition (1791), and German and Dutch editions, 1790 and 1791 respectively. Olaudah Equiano died in 1797. By 1837, nine more editions had been published.
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