Sara Forbes Bonetta was in 1843 at Oke Odan, Ogun State. Her small village was raided by a Dahomeyan army in 1884 by King Ghezo,the most notorious slave trading monarch in West Africa in the early 19th century. This attack led the death of her parent and she ended up as a slave at the age of five. although Intended by her captors to become a human sacrifice,the girl was not killed and remained at Gezo’s Court until 1849 when British Commander Frederick Forbes’s landed the HMS Bonetta in Dahomey to persuade Gezo to give up slave raiding and trading.

She was rescued by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the Royal Navy, who convinced King Ghezo of Dahomey to give her to Queen Victoria and also renamed her Sara Forbes Bonetta, Bonetta after his ship HMS Bonetta. Due to her special skills and talents at that tender age;Commander Forbes wrote that “She is a perfect genius; she now speaks English well, and [has] great talent for music… She is far in advance of any white child of her age in aptness of learning, and strength of mind and affection…”. She eventally got the attraction of queen victoria,and by november 1850,sarah was taken to Great Britian where the Queen entrusted her care to the Schoen family in Palm Cottage, Gillingham.Also The Queen declared Sarah her goddaughter and paid her tutorial expenses. This eventally made Young Sarah became a regular visitor to Windsor Castle.

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Igbos wee not like this... they want to be everything.

How Please

Smartchoiice:
Igbos wee not like this

Rich history, many thanks.

Smartchoiice:
Igbos wee not like this

Being a slave? Enlighten me biko

Googled it to confirm. Yeah GODDAUGHTER of queen Vicky

Thanks alot for your contribution

naijaguy1234:
Rich history, many thanks.

Also visit www.hiztorybox.com.ng for more interesting stories

Thanks alot as well

Nooneonline:
Googled it to confirm. Yeah GODDAUGHTER of queen Vicky

Visit www.hiztorybox.com.ng for exciting historical stories

Some people are funny. Who said she was a Nigerian? When she died in 1880, it would be another 34 years before Nigeria was created. The word "Nigeria" was not even created until 1897, a good 17 years after she died.

The woman was not a Nigerian

On a sad tribunal day you decide to taunt iPod with afonja pains


IPod will cum in tears today

Did you also observe that she was born in Oke Odan, Ogun State

gidgiddy:
Some people are funny. Who said she was a Nigerian? When she died in 1880, it would be another 34 years before Nigeria was created. The word "Nigeria" was not even created until 1897, a good 17 years after she died.

The woman was not a Nigerian

Pls where is Oke Odan, Ogun State..Is it in America or China?

Some people sha!

gidgiddy:
Some people are funny. Who said she was a Nigerian? When she died in 1880, it would be another 34 years before Nigeria was created. The word "Nigeria" was not even created until 1897, a good 17 years after she died.

The woman was not a Nigerian

Most sensible comment here.

She was neither a Nigerian or a Yaribansa aka Yoruba.

She identified herself as an Omoluabi.

But don't tell the Yaribansas.

gidgiddy:
Some people are funny. Who said she was a Nigerian? When she died in 1880, it would be another 34 years before Nigeria was created. The word "Nigeria" was not even created until 1897, a good 17 years after she died.

The woman was not a Nigerian

from your posts I see you an ipod so no surprise.



Make you nor die untop this matter the way you carry am for head like ckukwudi gala

HiztoryBox:
Did you also observe that she was born in Oke Odan, Ogun State

Pls where is Oke Odan, Ogun State..Is it in America or China?

Some people sha!

My point is that she is not Nigerian. She died long before there was anything called Nigeria. So how can she be a Nigerian? If the OP had said she is Yoruba the that's a different thing. How do you give a person a nationality they never held?

gidgiddy:
Some people are funny. Who said she was a Nigerian? When she died in 1880, it would be another 34 years before Nigeria was created. The word "Nigeria" was not even created until 1897, a good 17 years after she died.

The woman was not a Nigerian

You Igbos and hating sha. She was from Ogun State and Yoruba from a region that would later become part of a Nation called Nigeria. She is therefore of Nigerian origin and can be viewed as such. By your hate-ridden reasoning, she would be Stateless if we are to use the Logic that no nation of origin can be ascribed to her since Nigeria was not formally named when she left her shores. We shall therefore call her woman from the bush. That would suit you no? I bet if she were Igbo you would sing a different tune.

Smartchoiice:
Igbos wee not like this... they want to be everything.

So being a slave is now a thing of pride to you?

Smh

gidgiddy:


My point is that she is not Nigerian. She died long before there was anything called Nigeria. So how can she be a Nigerian? If the OP had said she is Yoruba the that's a different thing. How do you give a person a nationality they never held?

Stop being ignorant and stubborn. A land will get a name and affiliation in the end and those who originate from there are then addressed as indigenes of that nation. This is why native indians are called the original Americans even as the name did not exist when they did.

Thank God for whites and Christianity!

Blacks will still be selling their children and raiding villages for slavery if not for whites

Blacks are their own problem; from Fulani Vs Igbo Vs Yoruba, to Xenophobia in South Africa, to Hutu vs Tutsi

Blacks needs deliverance from envy, bitterness, greed and jealousy

NaijaRoyalty:


So being a slave is now a thing of pride to you?

Smh

DId he/she say it is? Fact is the young Lady could not control her destiny but she made the best of what happened to her which would be a thing of pride for all those who are humanitarian except you hateful IPOBians. If she were associated with your ethnic group I am sure your response will be different here considering you are the same people who claim erroneously to be descendants of Jews.

gidgiddy:
Some people are funny. Who said she was a Nigerian? When she died in 1880, it would be another 34 years before Nigeria was created. The word "Nigeria" was not even created until 1897, a good 17 years after she died.

The woman was not a Nigerian

Sophistry.

candidtalk:


You Igbos and hating sha. She was from Ogun State and Yoruba from a region that would later become part of a Nation called Nigeria. She is therefore of Nigerian origin and can be viewed as such. By your hate-ridden reasoning, she would be Stateless if we are to use the Logic that no nation of origin can be ascribed to her since Nigeria was not formally named when she left her shores. We shall therefore call her woman from the bush. That would suit you no? I bet if she were Igbo you would sing a different tune.

That's why Igbo is fighting for division so you won't be together with haters... Help us in this fight, so nobody would hate you and your likes

SocialJustice:
Sophistry.

Indeed..... and we all know the reason behind the attempt to deceive.

Sophistry
the use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.

truefact:

That's why Igbo is fighting for division so you won't be together with haters... Help us in this fight, so nobody would hate you and your likes

Why don't you simply all relocate to the SE, build a wall around your border and stay exclusively within your SE boundary? How difficult is that? Will we not take you serious if you did that and can you tell us why you have not done that to date? You shout Biafra daily yet you lot are dispersed and all over the place more than all other Nigerians. How do you think you come across to those who genuinely want their own nation and space? This is why we call you hateful.

You guys are everywhere trading and benefit from the entity called Nigeria yet you peddle hate against your host and fellow Nigerian to claim they are the enemies holding you back and that you want your own nation away from them. Yet you lot can never make the first and simple move of simply relocating to the SE. Next minute you will begin imaginary and fake noise of "they will not let us go" when no one is stopping you from moving back to your SE States of origin.

truefact:

That's why Igbo is fighting for division so you won't be together with haters... Help us in this fight, so nobody would hate you and your likes

One thing that is clear about you Igbos is that your Biafra noise is fake. If not, you will know you do not need Nigeria to "let you go" as it is not exactly Rocket Science to conclude Biafra can be achieved if you Igbos all move back to the SE and make the region the Dubai you claim your God-like ability will assist you to create. Shebi una get billionaires who built Lagos, London and New York and don't need Nigeria or her politics to create utopia? What are you waiting for then? Simple concept you make no effort to actualise yet you come on Nigerian forum to disturb the rest of us daily by presenting yourselves as 'enslaved people and casting other innocent Nigerians wrongly as 'slavers' and oppressive ogres in the eyes of the world.

The fool Kanu is running around portraying Igbos as 'oppressed' yet who is truly oppressing you in Nigeria? anyone stopping you leaving Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Edo State or Jos?

Pray tell us what manner of a slave is someone who will not leave the compound of the "slave master" when doors are unlocked and the slaver is away for hours, days, months and years? The fool Kanu is ordering you to beat your leaders yet why does he not order you lot to drop everything and relocate you and your assets to the SE to make the region what you all brag you will? You 'built Lagos' and London yet you cannot go back to do same for Abia, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi, Anambra et al. Hypocrites.

candidtalk:


You Igbos and hating sha. She was from Ogun State and Yoruba from a region that would later become part of a Nation called Nigeria. She is therefore of Nigerian origin and can be viewed as such. By your hate-ridden reasoning, she would be Stateless if we are to use the Logic that no nation of origin can be ascribed to her since Nigeria was not formally named when she left her shores. We shall therefore call her woman from the bush. That would suit you no? I bet if she were Igbo you would sing a different tune.

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Just take it easy... everything is not tribalism. You are both correct. There was no country called Nigeria as at the time this woman was born n died. So he is called that she is better called a Yoruba than a Nigerian.
However, history is what you make of it. Her place of birth n her tribe can only be found in present day Nigeria, so it won't be wrong to place her as a Nigerian( her descendants are Nigerians anyway).

Can you guys stop this childish bickering n savour the history behind this great woman?
Thank you

B C Forbes(founder of forbes) grandmother

gidgiddy:
Some people are funny. Who said she was a Nigerian? When she died in 1880, it would be another 34 years before Nigeria was created. The word "Nigeria" was not even created until 1897, a good 17 years after she died.

The woman was not a Nigerian

It simply means Late Samuel Ajayi Crowther was not a nigerian?

Pls help us and ask again oooo

ruggedtimi:
It simply means Late Samuel Ajayi Crowther was not a nigerian?

Quite hillarious contribution

candidtalk:


You Igbos and hating sha. She was from Ogun State and Yoruba from a region that would later become part of a Nation called Nigeria. She is therefore of Nigerian origin and can be viewed as such. By your hate-ridden reasoning, she would be Stateless if we are to use the Logic that no nation of origin can be ascribed to her since Nigeria was not formally named when she left her shores. We shall therefore call her woman from the bush. That would suit you no? I bet if she were Igbo you would sing a different tune.

This is all nonsense. You cannot give a person an identity that did not exist while they were alive. The woman was Yoruba, she was never Nigerian. When Olaudah Equiano, who was born in Isieke in present Anambra, died 1n 1797, not even Lugard who created Nigeria had been born yet. How can anyone then call Equiano a Nigerian when Nigeria did not exist more 100 years after he died? That's a fallacy

Okoroawusa:
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Just take it easy... everything is not tribalism. You are both correct. There was no country called Nigeria as at the time this woman was born n died. So he is called that she is better called a Yoruba than a Nigerian.
However, history is what you make of it. Her place of birth n her tribe can only be found in present day Nigeria, so it won't be wrong to place her as a Nigerian( her descendants are Nigerians anyway).

Can you guys stop this childish bickering n savour the history behind this great woman?
Thank you

Appreciate your message but you can't blame genuinely decent, accommodating and hardworking Nigerians being fed up of the antics of Igbos. That is why some of us respond the way we do. We know each other here and I know the poster I responded to is a Yoruba-hating bigot so I cannot threat their response here with objectivity. I make no apologise for this either. Until Igbos learn to stop hating other Nigerians and falsely presenting us before the world as "evil oppressors" holding them back then we modern Nigerians will tackle their online dedication to misinformation.

ruggedtimi:
It simply means Late Samuel Ajayi Crowther was not a nigerian?

Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a Yoruba man, he was never a Nigerian. Anyone who died before Nigeria was created in 1914 is not a Nigerian. Nationality cannot be given in reverse