^ Well those of us educated on matters of African history already know this. Unfortunately most folks even some black Americans are not. The truth must be told.
Posted by Herukhuti (Member # 11484) on :
Seeking Ancestors...
Olumo Rock
Contrary to popular beliefs, many of us "Continental Africans" never forgot about our Brothers & Sisters that were "Stolen" and shipped overseas...
We didn't sell them neither. In fact, we remember too well the battles we fought...
Dogon Yaro Tree
Conversating with Wise Woman about Ancestors & Tall Trees...
Posted by Herukhuti (Member # 11484) on :
Standing on the Rock that saved the matrilineal side of my ancestry from the Maafa...
All manners of thoughts running through my head ... WHAT IFs and WHAT NOWs.... Posted by Herukhuti (Member # 11484) on :
Posted by Herukhuti (Member # 11484) on :
Curious Images...
Image of (apparently) a "real life" hero that successfully fought off the "Idahomey" enemies (armed by Europeans) who had come to the Rock looking for slaves to capture....
...He was eventually betrayed, this was done in his memory and honour...
quote: What manner of man is this, I ask? Who roams the seven seas who graces the skies of birds of iron and wanders where he please Who walks into another's home and takes his properly Then slays the man, his wife and child in the name of liberty... http://www.justsomelyrics.com/1346602/The-Last-Poets-Hands-Off-Lyrics
Posted by Alive (Member # 10819) on :
nice pics heru Posted by Herukhuti (Member # 11484) on :
Posted by Herukhuti (Member # 11484) on :
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Abeokuta town, capital of Ogun state, southwestern Nigeria. It is situated on the east bank of the Ogun River, around a group of rocky outcroppings that rise above the surrounding wooded savanna. It lies on the main railway (1899) from Lagos, 48 miles (78 km) south, and on the older trunk road from Lagos to Ibadan; it also has road connections to Ilaro, Shagamu, Iseyin, and Kétou (Benin).
Abeokuta ("refuge among rocks") was founded in about 1830 by Sodeke (Shodeke), a hunter and leader of the Egba refugees who fled from the disintegrating Oyo empire. The town was also settled by missionaries (in the 1840s) and by Sierra Leone Creoles, who later became prominent as missionaries and as businessmen.
Abeokuta's success as the capital of the Egbas and as a link in the Lagos-Ibadan oil-palm trade led to wars with Dahomey (now Benin). In the battle at Abeokuta in 1851, the Egba, aided by the missionaries and armed by the British, defeated King Gezo's Dahomeyan army (unique in the history of western Africa for its common practice of using women warriors). Another Dahomeyan attack was repulsed in 1864.
Troubles in the 1860s with the British in Lagos led the Egba to close the trade routes to the coast and to expel (1867) its missionaries and European traders.
After the Yoruba civil wars (1877-93), in which Abeokuta opposed Ibadan, the Egba alake ("king") signed an alliance with the British governor, Sir Gilbert Carter, that recognized the independence of the Egba United Government (1893-1914). In 1914 the kingdom was incorporated into the newly amalgamated British Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria. The Abeokuta riots of 1918 protested both the levying of taxes and the "indirect rule" policy of Lord Frederick Lugard, the British governor-general, which made the alake, formerly primus inter pares ("first among equals"), the supreme traditional leader to the detriment of the other quarter chiefs.
Modern Abeokuta is an agricultural trade centre (rice, yams, cassava, corn [maize], palm oil and kernels, cotton, fruits, vegetables) and an exporting point for cocoa, palm produce, fruits, and kola nuts.
^ Indeed, if you mean the ones with a little phallic problem?
Posted by Please call me MIDOGBE (Member # 9216) on :
Herukhuti:
Do Olumo rock's guides actually tell tourists that Dahomey was sent and armed by Europeans to Abeokuta to get slaves?
Posted by Herukhuti (Member # 11484) on :
Not exactly, but it is emphasised that the war prisoners were sold slaves to Europeans.
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