₦airaland Forum

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Fela Anikulapo Kuti (October 15th, 1938 - August 2nd 1997)

TheSourcerer:
Martiniano Eliseu do Bomfim Yoruba name was Òjélàdé, (1859-1943), was born in Bahia, Brazil. His father was a member of the Egba, one of the Yoruba sub-groups, had been brought to Brazil as a slave in 1820 and liberated there in 1842. A 16-year-old Martiniano accompanied his father, Eliseu do Bomfim, who was an import/export trader of Yoruba goods, on a trip from Salvador, Bahia to Lagos, Yorubaland in 1875 for the purpose of attending school and learning a trade. In Lagos he attended the Church Missionary Society Alápákó Fàájì School for almost 11 years. He arrived back in Salvador on January 30, 1886. During his time in Lagos Martiniano became fluent not only in English but also in Yoruba. He also acquired knowledge of Ifá, the Yoruba system of divination and became a Babalawo, as well as being trained as a bricklayer and house painter. Back in Bahia he worked as an English teacher for well to do Afro-Brazilians. Martiniano died on November 1, 1943 in Salvador, Bahia. Photo: 1937

TheSourcerer:
Cândido da Fonseca Galvão, also known as Oba II d’Africa (1845-1890) was a Brazilian man who fought in the War of the Triple Alliance (also called the Paraguayan War) and claimed to be the grandson of an African prince whose son had been brought to Brazil as a slave. Galvão himself was born a free man in Bahia, and enlisted in the military at a time when Black slavery was still legal in what was then the Empire of Brazil.

Galvão was the grandson of the powerful African prince Alafin Abiodun, who unified the Yoruba kingdom of Oyó in the late eighteenth century. Galvão’s father fought in the wars that raged in that region of Africa in the early nineteenth century, was captured in battle, and sold into slavery. He was then transported to Bahia. With the help of friends among the Yoruba community in Salvador, Galvão’s father quickly purchased his freedom. He then married and had children. As an offspring of freedpersons, Cândido Galvão was raised as a free black man near the town of Lençóis in the interior of Bahia.

Dom Obá II considered it his duty to fight for his country in the war against Paraguay. “As the patriotic soldier that I am, I understand that I have only been doing my duty in taking an active part in all the matters that I understand to be grave.” Enlisting as a Voluntário in the all-black Zuavo company that departed from Lençóis on May 1865, Galvão remained at the front until wounded in his right hand in August 1866. After his return to Bahia, where he remained through the decade of the 1870s, Galvão petitioned government officials for recognition of his service during the war and for monetary compensation. His experience in Paraguay inspired his commitment to ending slavery in Brazil and his pride in being a black man.

Galvão settled in Rio de Janeiro in 1880, where he gained renown. The wealthy considered him a “disturbed veteran” (uma espécie de veterano resmungão) and “folkloric aberration” due to his outspokenness and appearance in attire that included a long black morning coat, tall hat, gloves, umbrella, and walking cane. An activist of the first order, Galvão met personally with the Emperor [Pedro II of Brazil] 125 at public meetings from June 1882 to December 1884! Dom Obá garnered great respect among “the Blacks and the Browns” (the terms commonly used by Galvão) residing in the city. Slaves, freedpersons, and free persons of color all provided financial support that enabled the prince to publish articles in newspapers. In his writings, Galvão praised the contributions of black and brown soldiers during the Paraguayan war, condemned the racism he witnessed in Brazil, and called for an end to slavery.

TheSourcerer:
Seventh Day Adventists Secondary Modern School, Ife, Nigeria (1959).

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A freed Yoruba slave from Bahia, Brazil. 1800s

AlphaTaikun:
Yeah, the Brazilian-born Yoruba Prince, Candido Galvao was the grandson of Alaafin Abiodun, the
Yoruba Emperor of the great Oyo Empire with the seat of power in
Western Nigeria who ruled in the late 1700s.





Cc:Sukkot

TheSourcerer:
Traffic in the streets of Lagos, 1982

Reallife17:
what’s intelligence by your standard if I may ask?

TheSourcerer:
Seventh Day Adventists Secondary Modern School, Ife, Nigeria (1959).

Aidejay:
I don't have a standard for intelligence. I'm just pointing out that it's easy to mistake being loud, different or eccentric for intelligence or "genius" in hindsight, there are different types of intelligence.

Reflect7:
Don't mind them. In those days we used to eat one small piece of meat per meal. Or 2 if lucky or on christmas day.

Today na ''assorted'' with orishirishi daily.

Back then, no phone for the masses or internet. If you needed to speak to someone or start a business or whatever, na Molue you go catch. 49 sitting 99 standing.

No guarantee that the person you're going to see will be there when you reach o! If he no dey, na back to rushing for Molue to head home.

No air-conditioned BRT service with in-built USB outlets o!

Who dash you that one?

These pampered youths of today could not survive 1970s or 1980s Nigeria.

TheSourcerer:
Northern Nigerian hunters. 1956

Kalaba:
Sir, I need the source for this particular information/image.
Thanks

thebosstrevor1:
Seems lagos looks like the most advanced state in Nigeria

joshuaidibia:
How was she a hypocrite? I'm not arguing with you just want to learn a bit of history. Thanks

atheistandproud:
Ekumeku warriors, 1898 to 1914. They fought the British to a standstill in what is now Delta State.

budaatum:
How has democracy not worked for America?

oneMalik:
They are entertainers not Hunters .....Good job thou !

pepetua:
This is not celestial church but cherubim and seraphim church.

TheSourcerer:
Ahhh Buda, I know you know well what I mean , I explain to people who don’t know , you’re Buda you know

delpee:
Thanks for the awakening of great memories and some history lessons.

babajero:
Intelligent in his own class but not in the basis of science, technology and engineering which is more important to mankind.

pqmeup:
These pictures made me shed tears because they reminded me of when things were still good, everywhere was devoid of terror, see school children decently dressed, innocence written all over their faces. What miracle could be done for us to return back to those days when #5 naira had value.

Aijeez:
Wow, how come they did not wear hijab?

vicfajeze:
wit smelly body odoür

Treadway:
this is still time appropriate. You could take a pic of Hausa girls dressed just like this, in an environment just like this, today.

Treadway:
thanks op. Lovely pics that have successfully sent me down memory lane. Meanwhile, some nairalanders will tell you Tinubu built this road. Lol

Banbanna:
God bless you for this quite insightful posts.

Whenever I see pictures of young varsity ladies back then looking so well clad, ordinary and barely sexy, I can't help but compare then with varsity ladies of now, with all of their flashy and seductive dresses. Omo, what a time we're in. The generational differences is very alarming.

MufasaLion:
Why was Mother Theresa a hypocrite and how?