AndreUweh:
The slave merchants from Europe did not penetrate inlands of West Africa for slaves. They traded with Aro, Edos, Itsekiris, Oyos, Eguns etc on the coast.
But my main concern here is that it was not only slaves of Yoruba origin that were recaptured, returned to Sierra Leone and from there to Lagos. The recaptives were of different ethnic nationalities. Hence it is wrong for one certain chap to claim that all the recatives are of Lagos and Yoruba origins.

majority of the returnees in Lagos were of Yoruba origin.

the people you mentioned who went eastwards with Bishop Crowther, why didn't they have Igbo names? Just curious.

some Afro Brazilians:

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ife sculpture :

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AndreUweh:

Are you mad or what. How on earth can you believe that only Yorubas were resettled in Lagos. The recaptives were renamed and came to Lagos with foreign names. So it will be very difficult for you to see names such as Okereke, Okafor, Okonkwo, Okorie etc.
By the time the recaptives arrived from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, there were already native tribes in Lagos which you mentioned, but the recaptives mostly were not of those ethnic stock in Lagos. There were Egbas, Ibadans, Edes, Ijeshas, Igbos, Nupes, Edos, etc.
This recaptives having become xtians in new world or Europe, now helped with the expansion of xtianity in modern day Nigeria.
I know that the expedition to christianise Igboland was led by Samuel Crowther, but he worked alongside some other returnees whom were of Igbo origin.
Once again, only a fool such as Alh Harem will disagree with this fact.

You are a bas-tard nyanmiri