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causRep:

Tosin Oyelowo, went missing on Friday, December 9th in Charleston, South Carolina where she is working as a resident after graduating from the University of Charleston West Virginia School of Pharmacy last summer. I never even knew her personally, but I remember seeing her at several events here in Raleigh, NC (where she and her parents have lived for some years since they moved to US from Lagos, Nigeria) including her dad's 50th birthday party some years ago. I remember noticing her beautiful skin and calm persona. To hear that she went missing few days ago is very shocking and painful. If I didn't even know her personally but I'm crying as I am typing this, then I can't even imagine what her parents, family and friends are going through right now.


The news was sent to me as a prayer request text from a friend of mine. I, immediately, called him back to find out what happened and he told me. Heartbreaking, to say the least. My friend mentioned that he had done a google search and there was nothing about it on the news and he felt that it will be great idea to use Facebook and social media, in general, to spread the news and help increase the chance of someone finding her. However, he wasn't too sure if to go ahead and do that on his own. I went ahead and told him that I will go ahead and do something about putting the news out there for everyone to spread since the media will not do it.

To know that such a young and beautiful black lady with incredible potential is missing and there is nothing about it on google or on the news is extremely devastating. However, thanks to the internet, I know we can do something about it. Spread the news.


I am hoping we can use the social media to circulate this news and help bring her back home. We might not be powerful enough to have this on every TV news channel, but I believe we can use the power of the internet to bring Tosin back home. Pls, post this link and let people see her face. Make sure every friend or family member of yours does the same.


If you see her anywhere or have any information, please call 911 and alert the police in your vicinity. Or you may contact the Charleston Police Department at 843-577-7434. If the news media will not do it, we will use the resources that we have to spread the word.


Everyone is praying and fasting for her return but I know we have to take action and broadcast the word; I believe God uses people to answer prayers. I believe she will be found by God's grace. Let us use the power of the internet to let the world know about her,  hopefully find her and bring her back home to her loving family and friends!


Here is a link to her pharmacy school profile - http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/pharmacy_services/residency/residents/2011_12/oyelowo.html

And here is an article about her winning a scholarship from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation - http://readme.readmedia.com/Olutosin-Oyelowo-Receives-Scholarship-from-Alpha-Kappa-Alpha/1882198

Disclaimer & Update: This site was voluntarily created by a friend of a friend who heard about it. I am not a family member and do not have enough details but just felt something had to be done about it after I searched google and didn't find anything about the situation. As you can deduce from the blog, all I know is where she went missing (Charleston, SC), what day and the Charleston Police Department number that I saw someone put up on Facebook. I did not ask for permission from anyone to put this up. I did this on my own because I just really felt something had to be done and it had to be done immediately using the media that we have access to - the internet.
Regardless of powerful prayer and fasting that I, myself, have joined in on too, I feel the more people know about this and know what she looks like, the more likely she will be found. God uses people to make things happen. We can pray and fast but the word needs to be out there to let people know what she looks like. I hope this site helps to bring her back home. I wish the family and friends great wishes.http://www.helpbringtosinhome.com/2011/12/help-bring-tosin-home-everyone-is.html

I hope they find her soon and alive as well

Rgp92:
Lets start by conquering the mind of our people.

I agree, when it comes to economic progression, along with other things

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA link=topic=825256.msg9773512#msg9773512 date=1323976292]nothing is impossible. if we wrok hard and put in our effort then we will succeed. i am sure of it. [/quote]OK, wish you good luck on that

[quote author=PAGAN  9JA link=topic=825256.msg9773072#msg9773072 date=1323971955]no no. these are Ahantaa peoples not Ashanti, thought it is true that they are all Akan peoples. Ashanti have very few practicer of trad. religion.

yes Ewe also have large population of Pagan peoples.

however our goal is to make it 100% not just a few practicers here and there. it MUST be 100%.[/quote]Got it the Ahantaa people but I must admit it is impossible when it comes to getting a 100% ghanians practicing the old religion; it's inevitable

[quote author=PAGAN  9JA link=topic=825256.msg9772489#msg9772489 date=1323966559]atleast he tried to resist unlike many of us today who embrace the colonist and their customs.

i know the Ahanta peoples. many still practice traditional religion which is good considering the sacrifices done in the past.[/quote]oh that's interesting, I didn't know many Ashanti still practice the old religion. The only ghanians I know are from the Ewe tribe

[quote author=PAGAN  9JA link=topic=825256.msg9771328#msg9771328 date=1323957931]May the soul of this Great King rest for eternity.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Badu_Bonsu_II.jpg[/quote]I know, especially with what the dutch did to him

VIDEO IS HERE: http://tv.yahoo.com/primetime/

Rgp92:
They kept his head? shi.t, just imagine if a black nation did this

exactly

Ybutterfly:
^^^^^^^^^^sHE iS uGlY^^^^^^^

well she isn't ugly or pretty just there to me

@Ileki

Nice video's, I going to keep them in my collection, this one is my favorite so far
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I going to check out more of her music, I never heard of her before but she sound nice.

[b]"(bbc) – Dutch officials have handed back to Ghana the head of a king who was executed by colonists in the 1830s.

Tribal elders led a ceremony in The Hague to hand over the head of Badu Bonsu II, stored in a Dutch museum for 170 years.

The king, who was leader of the Ahanta group, is believed to have been decapitated in retaliation for the killing of two Dutch emissaries.

Some believe the king would not be at rest unless his head was returned.

Several Ghanaian traditional leaders – including a descendant of the king – held an emotional ritual during the handover at the Dutch foreign ministry.

AFP news agency reported that they poured alcohol on the floor of the conference room while invoking the chief’s spirit.

“It is because of the injustice meted out to our people that our great king, who was fighting for his people, was murdered,” said Nana Kwekwe Darko III, who led the ceremony.

The Dutch foreign ministry said in a statement that King Bonsu had killed two Dutch officials in 1838 and was “handed over by his own nation” to colonialists.

‘Hunted in the afterlife’

Arthur Japin, a Dutch author who researched King Bonsu, says the head was brought to the Netherlands, possibly by mistake, shortly after the king was killed.

A Dutch general had been asked to bring back “heads” from Ghana to be studied by a famous phrenologist – a scientist who believes the character of a person can be determined by the shape of the skull.

“He probably meant just some drawings of different types of people but the general took this literally and he took the head and put it in formaldehyde and put it on the ship,” Mr Japin told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme.

During the voyage home the general died, and his body was also preserved.

On the expedition’s return, King Bonsu’s head was given to the Leiden University Medical Centre, where it has been ever since.

After hearing of the head’s location in 2008, Ghana filed a request for its return, saying if it remained unburied, the king would be incomplete and therefore “hunted in the afterlife”.

The traditional leaders are due to return to Ghana with the head on Friday. "[/b]
http://www.allwestafrica.com/240720091646.html

[img]http://vorige.nrc.nl/multimedia/dynamic/00238/eng-ghana_238575a.jpg[/img]
https://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01449/Badu-Bonsu_1449371c.jpg
http://vorige.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2309332.ece/Dutch_return_Ghana_chiefs_severed_head
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/5896064/Dutch-return-171-year-old-severed-head-to-Ghana.html