Download or read book Slave Trade and Western Civilization in Badagry written by Sewanu Ashamu Fadipe and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badagry is located along the coast of West Africa serving as a border town in Nigeria overlooking the coast of Republic of Benin.Badagry was founded around 1425 A.D. by a farmer called 'Agbedeh' and his family. Slave trade began in the ancient town in 1473 by a Portuguese slave merchant; Ferman Gomes. Ferman Gomes sold inhabitants of the coast of Badagry as slaves to Europe before continuing his exploration to Fernando Po Island.By 1502 and 1510 when the New World (Americas) had been discovered and opened for slavery activities, the Spanish Royal Authority issued an order to transport slaves from West Africa to Americas. The first set of slaves arrived New World at that period. Thereafter, Badagry supplied slaves to Hispanola (now Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamestown, Charlotte, Wilmington, Auston Havana, Barbadoes, Trinidand, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Peuto-rico, Porte-au-prince, Dutch West Indices, Virginia, Caracas and a host of other cities in the New world.The trade became interesting and rose to its height in 1760s and 1770s when Europeans slave dealers installed themselves in different wards by their nationalities in Badagry. Thus, the major suppliers of slaves were the King of Oyo (Alafin of Oyo) and the local chiefs.The obnoxious trade did not come to an end until 1888 in Badagry.Meanwhile, the western civilization began in the historic town with the arrival of liberated slaves from Sierra - leone in 1839. This group of people engaged in legitimate trade and preaching against slave trade. The arrival of the Christian missionaries and British Administration brought dramatic change to the life of the people of Badagry. Thus, the gospel of Christ was preached in 1842, the first elementary school was established in 1843, the First Storey Building in Nigeria was built in 1845 while District officers' office was constructed in 1863. Besides, the tangible heritage of slave trade are the slave market space, the slave route and Williams Faremi Abass Baracoon. Other tangible heritages were destroyed on the order of Her Majesty, Queen of England in 1852. The big advantage offered by this monograph is that the reading is presented in English and French Languages. This provides opportunity for visitors to the town, the residents, researchers and most especially African in the diaspora to know more about the ancient city.

Download or read book Badagry written by Gabriel Ogundeji Ogunremi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lagos and Its Environs written by L. C. Dioka and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vothuno written by A. Babatunde Olaide-Mesewaku and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the enchanting storytelling prowess of Thaagbo, Vothuno presents a grim narration of history of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in a deeply traditional African setting. The novel is an imaginative reconstruction of the tragic derailment of African society that was the slave trade. Vothuno turns to Badagri as a laboratory for the experimentation. Vothuno typifies the entrenched socio-economic traditions of the people of Badagri before the advent of the missionaries, who are the heralds of modernity and freedom from the bondage of slave trade in the ancient city. The arrival of the missionaries with the twin objectives of propagating Christianity and ending slave trade in an enclave rooted in traditional practices already precipitates inevitable collision path with Vothuno, the protagonist - who doubles as the Chief Priest and Chief Market Master of the slave trade business, with outcomes that changed Badagri forever. ABOUT THE AUTHOR A. Babatunde Olaide-Mesewaku is a seasoned administrator, currently a Deputy Director of Administration in the Local Government Service of Lagos State, Nigeria with wealth of experience in Local Government Administration and Human Resources Management. He has worked in many Local Governments in Lagos State in different capacity. He is at the moment the Council Manager, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State. For his resourcefulness, managerial savvy and exemplary leadership quality he was awarded certificate of excellence as the Most Outstanding Council Manager in Lagos State in 2007 and 2011 respectively by the Chartered Institute of Local Government and Public Administration of Nigeria. The author graduated from University of Ibadan in 1989 with Bachelor of Arts (combined) Honours degree in English/Theatre Arts. He has just completed Edexcel Level 5 BTEC HND programme in Travel and Tourism Management, London. He holds two Master Degrees in Public Administration and Legal Studies, all acquired at the Lagos State University, Ojo in 1995 and 2009 respectively. He is at the moment a student of University of Leicester, London pursuing another Master Degree programme in Museum Studies. He is an artist, a cultural tourism exponent and promoter, a poet, and a writer. He spearheads the organisation of the annual 'Badagry Diaspora Festival' being organised by African Renaissance Foundation (an NGO he co-founded) and De Roots Renaissance. Mr. Mesewaku has written and published two books on Badagry historiography and culture. These are: Badagry: The Cultural Heritage (1999) and Badagry District 1863 - 1999 (2001). He is the publisher of De Roots Renaissance Newsletter, a bi-monthly publication dedicated to Tourism, Culture, and the Arts. He is married and blessed with children.

Download or read book Sea Ports and Sea Power written by Lynn Harris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a more Africanist approach to the framework of maritime landscapes and challenges of adapting international heritage policy such as the UNESCO convention. While the concept of a maritime landscape is very broad, a more focused thematic strategy draws together a number of case studies in South Africa, Namibia, Tanzania, and Nigeria with a common thread. Specifically, the contributors address the sub-theme of sea ports and sea power as part of understanding the African maritime landscape. Sea ports and surrounds are dynamic centers of maritime culture supporting a rich diversity of cultural groups and economic activities. Strategic locations along the African coastline have associations with indigenous maritime communities and trade centers, colonial power struggles and skirmishes, establishment of naval bases and operations, and World War I and II engagements.

Download or read book Nigeria written by Lizzie Williams and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2008 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its negative image, for travelers with an open mind and friendly demeanor Nigeria is an incredibly absorbing country in which to travel. Experience the mind-boggling chaos of Lagos, the traditional durbars, Benin bronzes and walled cities, and enjoy its single greatest quality – the warm generosity of 140 million people. Details of getting around, by bush taxi, rail, car or on foot, together with accommodations options, wildlife watching and activities, are balanced by a wealth of background information, from history (of a country dating back thousands of years) and geography to culture and the environment.

Download or read book Zangbeto written by Folashade Hunsu and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Discussion Paper critically examines Zangbeto, a highly revered society, among the Egun people in the town of Badagry, near the city of Lagos, in south west Nigeria, that have creatively re-invented tradition to serve multiple purposes. Its shows how Zangbeto has in the context of economic crisis and challenges linked to urban growth, adapted its roles to include communal policing, conflict mediation, oral art and entertainment, and the maintenance of communal order. In more ways than one, it captures the essence and multiple identities of Zangbeto within Badagry society. The involvement of Zangbeto in local policing or 'night watching' provides an alternative or an exception to the dominant representation of vigilantism in Nigeria as disorderly violence, sometimes for political or criminal ends. This paper also demonstrates how Zangbeto, drawing upon local Egun culture and traditional practices is able to maintain security and local order at the community level. It is argued that rather than act in an arbitrary and violent manner, Zangbeto operates through the combination of traditional symbolic actions and oral art in mediating local conflicts and preserving social harmony and local order. An interesting point relates to how Zangbeto co-exists peacefully with formal political and security institutions, and operates without causing tensions within Badagry town, where some inhabitants share different ethnic identities and religious faiths. The study also opens up a humanist perspective to how the aesthetics of Zangbeto's cultural tropes of oral presentation, rhetoric and representation act as a powerful force for preserving cherished communal norms and values, and facilitating communication in ways that strengthen social cohesion. In this regard this paper demonstrates the wealth of possibilities that exist within Africa's traditional cultures and oral arts for alternative grassroots-based conflict mediation and security.

Download or read book Major Companies of Nigeria 1983 written by Lawn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature written by Sarah Quesada and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah Quesada argues that these canonical works evoke textual memorials of African memory. She shows how the African Atlantic haunts modern Latinx and Caribbean writing, and examines the disavowal or distortion of the African subject in the constructions of national, racial, sexual, and spiritual Latinx identity. Quesada shows how themes such as the 19th century 'scramble for Africa,' the decolonizing wars, Black internationalism, and the neoliberal turn are embedded in key narratives. Drawing from multilingual archives about West and Central Africa, she examines how the legacies of colonial French, Iberian, British and U.S. Imperialisms have impacted on the relationships between African and Latinx identities. This is the first book-length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature.

Download or read book Badagry written by A. Babatunde Olaide-Mesewaku and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ghanaian Pidgin English in Its West African Context written by Magnus Huber and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first published full-scale study of the Ghanaian variety of West African Pidgin English (GhaPE) makes extensive use of hitherto neglected historical material and provides a synchronic account of GhaPE's structure and sociolinguistics. Special focus is on the differences between GhaPE and other West African Pidgins, in particular the development of, and interrelations between, the different varieties of restructured English in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Cameroon. This monograph further includes an overview of the history of Afro-European contact languages in Lower Guinea with special emphasis on the Gold Coast; an outline of the settlement of Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a description of how and when the transplantation of Sierra Leonean Krio to other West African countries took place; an analysis of the linguistic evidence for the origin, development, and spread of restructured Englishes on the Lower Guinea Coast; an account of the different varieties of GhaPE and their sociolinguistic status in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Ghana; as well as a comprehensive structural description of the “uneducated” variety of GhaPE. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which contains illustrative material such as spoken GhaPE and photographs.

Download or read book Current Research in African Linguistics written by Oluseye Adesola and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current Research in African Linguistics recognizes and honors Ọladele Awobuluyi’s contributions to African linguistics. The contributors, an international group of scholars, represent four generations of African linguists who have been influenced by Awobuluyi’s work as a scholar and teacher. The papers are organized into three thematic sections, namely applied linguistics and sociolinguistics; phonology and morphology; and syntax and semantics and their interfaces. The wide range of topics investigated in this volume will enhance the reader’s understanding of current issues in the field of African linguistics today. Indeed, the book marks an important contribution to the expanding work on language documentation and comparative linguistics by presenting data and linguistic analysis from a number of different African languages.

Download or read book State Capture and Rent Seeking in Benin written by François Bourguignon and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benin is a small, slow-growing economy whose development relies on two sources of rent that are controlled by self-centred elites: cotton export and illegal cross-border trade with Nigeria. Patrimonialism governs Beninese society as a forceful struggle for political power takes place between the oligarchs who control these sources and use them as formidable levers of power. State Capture and Rent-Seeking in Benin argues that this struggle causes the instability and unpredictability of economic policies, resulting in institutional problems that make economic diversification and growth difficult. Based on a thorough account of the economic, social, and political development of Benin, this institutional diagnostic provides a detailed analysis of its critical institution- and development-sensitive areas such as electoral campaign finance, state capture by business and elites, management of the cotton sector, the tax effort, the informal trading between Benin and Nigeria, and the political economy of land reform.

Download or read book Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation written by Vinayak Bharne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at its best, a reflective and consequential process of urban and socio-economic reform. It has the potential to reconcile conflicting memories, meanings, and cultural tensions, bridging and expanding the perceived boundaries of multiple disciplines towards bigger aspirations of city-making and social justice. How and where do such aspirations overlap and differ across nations and societies across the world? In places with different histories, governance structures, regulatory stringency, and populist dispositions, who are the specific players, and what are the actual processes that bring about bigger and deeper change beyond just the conservation of an architectural or urban entity of perceived value? This collection of scholarly articles by theorists, academics, and practitioners explores the global complexity, guises, and potential of heritage conservation. Going from Tokyo to Cairo, Shenzhen to Rome, and Delhi to Moscow, this volume examines a vast range of topics – indigenous habitats, urban cores, vernacular infrastructure, colonial towns, squatters, burial sites, war zones, and modern landmarks. It surfaces numerous inherent issues – water stress, deforestation, social oppression, poverty, religion, immigration, and polity, expanding the definitions of heritage conservation as both a professional discipline and socio-cultural catalyst. This book argues that the intellectual and praxis limits of heritage conservation – as the agency of reading, defining, and intervening with built heritage – can be expansive, aimed at bigger positive change beyond a specific subject or object; plural, enmeshed with multiple fields and specializations; and empathetic, born from the actual socio-political realities of a place.

Download or read book My Nigeria written by Peter Cunliffe-Jones and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His nineteenth-century cousin, paddled ashore by slaves, twisted the arms of tribal chiefs to sign away their territorial rights in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Sixty years later, his grandfather helped craft Nigeria's constitution and negotiate its independence, the first of its kind in Africa. Four decades later, Peter Cunliffe-Jones arrived as a journalist in the capital, Lagos, just as military rule ended, to face the country his family had a hand in shaping.Part family memoir, part history, My Nigeria is a piercing look at the colonial legacy of an emerging power in Africa. Marshalling his deep knowledge of the nation's economic, political, and historic forces, Cunliffe-Jones surveys its colonial past and explains why British rule led to collapse at independence. He also takes an unflinching look at the complicated country today, from email hoaxes and political corruption to the vast natural resources that make it one of the most powerful African nations; from life in Lagos's virtually unknown and exclusive neighborhoods to the violent conflicts between the numerous tribes that make up this populous African nation. As Nigeria celebrates five decades of independence, this is a timely and personal look at a captivating country that has yet to achieve its great potential.

Download or read book We Visit Nigeria written by Karen Gibson and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria is called the giant of Africa. With more people than any other country in Africa, Nigeria is a country diverse in its land and its people. Travel to Nigeria and see deserts and beaches, rainforests and savannas. Nigeria is a land of cities, both ancient and modern. In the villages, people live traditional lifestyles similar to the ones their ancestors lived long ago. With over 500 languages, Nigerians know that it’s people who are important, whether it’s gold medal athletes, musicians, famous authors, or the friend down the street. Find out about the beauty and tradition of a proud country and discover what makes Nigeria special in the eyes of so many.

Download or read book Introduction to Nigeria written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigeria is a country located in West Africa and is known for its rich cultural heritage and diversity. With a population of over 200 million people, it is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world. The country is divided into 36 states and one Federal Capital Territory, with Abuja being the capital city. Nigeria has a highly diversified economy with a mix of agriculture, industry, and natural resources. It is the largest producer and exporter of crude oil in Africa and has the ninth-largest natural gas reserves in the world. The country also has a vibrant music and film industry known as Nollywood that is popular across the continent. However, Nigeria has faced a number of challenges including poverty, corruption, terrorism, and ethnic/religious tensions. Since gaining independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has experienced several military coups and a civil war. Nigeria's political system is currently based on a federal republic with a presidential system of government. The country is also a member of the African Union, Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Nations. With its diverse population and rich resources, Nigeria remains an important player in African politics and a key country in global affairs.