EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN: IGBO HERITAGE
Edward Wilmot Blyden [pictured 1851 by Anson, Rufus] (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912) was a writer and politician who described both his parents as being of complete Igbo ancestry As the father of pan-Africanism, he was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician after settling in Liberia and afterwards Sierra Leone. Born in the Virgin Islands in the West Indies, he joined the free black immigrants from the United States who migrated to the region. He taught for five years