₦airaland Forum

SirWere:
I feel we ignore the link between us and Yorubas in the Caribbean and South America too often.



Respect to the man.

macof:
Sadly true.

We need to create bridges with our brothers across the Atlantic

salford1:
Candido da Fonseca Galvao, the Yoruba Prince of Brazil.
Candido da Fonseca Galvao ( Sheets , 1845 – 1890 ) was a military officer in Brazil.

Candido da Fonseca Galvao was probably a son or grandson of Yoruba King Abiodun of Oyo Empire in the area now known as South West, Nigeria. He was recognized as a foreign sovereign by the Brazilian monarchy, and was known as Dom Oba II d’Africa, or simply Dom Oba.

Originally sold into slavery, he however, exemplified the type of free men of African descent who lived in and contributed to Brazil. A royal prince with bloodline from Yorubaland; on a quest for adventure.
He voluntarily enlisted to fight in the War of Paraguay and due to his great bravery and outstanding martial skills he was awarded an honorary officer of the Brazilian army.

After the war, he settled in Rio de Janeiro, becoming a legendary figure of folkloric proportions. He was revered and adored as a royal prince by the millions of African Brazilians of his time. He was an inspiration, a leader and a father figure for those very African Brazilians in their struggle to live with dignity, to establish fairness in a prejudiced Brazil.
Dom Oba was a personal friend of the Emperor D. Pedro II whom he regularly visited in his court each year, and where he was received with all full honours due to a sovereign dignitary.

He was also a committed abolitionist and began a campaign to combat racism.

He was a monarchist in his political outlook. Thus, with the fall of the Empire in 1889 he fell out of favour with the republicans because of his monarchist sentiments. He died soon after in July 1890.
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SirWere:
This is one of the limitations of not being in a separate Oodua nation, I suppose. We don't even acknowledge Yorubas in Benin Republic much talkess of Brazil.


It's a pity though, we can use the strength of these Cultural relationships to build trade bridges into South America and speed up National Development.

salford1:
Candido da Fonseca Galvao, the Yoruba Prince of Brazil.
Candido da Fonseca Galvao ( Sheets , 1845 – 1890 ) was a military officer in Brazil.

Candido da Fonseca Galvao was probably a son or grandson of Yoruba King Abiodun of Oyo Empire in the area now known as South West, Nigeria. He was recognized as a foreign sovereign by the Brazilian monarchy, and was known as Dom Oba II d’Africa, or simply Dom Oba.

Originally sold into slavery, he however, exemplified the type of free men of African descent who lived in and contributed to Brazil. A royal prince with bloodline from Yorubaland; on a quest for adventure.

He voluntarily enlisted to fight in the War of Paraguay and due to his great bravery and outstanding martial skills he was awarded an honorary officer of the Brazilian army.

After the war, he settled in Rio de Janeiro, becoming a legendary figure of folkloric proportions. He was revered and adored as a royal prince by the millions of African Brazilians of his time. He was an inspiration, a leader and a father figure for those very African Brazilians in their struggle to live with dignity, to establish fairness in a prejudiced Brazil.

Dom Oba was a personal friend of the Emperor D. Pedro II whom he regularly visited in his court each year, and where he was received with all full honours due to a sovereign dignitary.

He was also a committed abolitionist and began a campaign to combat racism.

He was a monarchist in his political outlook. Thus, with the fall of the Empire in 1889 he fell out of favour with the republicans because of his monarchist sentiments. He died soon after in July 1890.

# Copied from Proudly Yoruba

SirWere:
This is one of the limitations of not being in a separate Oodua nation, I suppose. We don't even acknowledge Yorubas in Benin Republic much talkess of Brazil.


It's a pity though, we can use the strength of these Cultural relationships to build trade bridges into South America and speed up National Development.

Olu317:
Honestly it's indeed a good reason. Imagine, when the United States of America has made conclusion to fuse Yoruba language into their academic curriculum and some few Yorubas are blind to see it. Eledumare will open our inner eyes to see the plan God has for us.

macof:
true. I've always maintained the stand that a Sovereign or at least Autonomous Yoruba Nation would help Yorubas mentally and socioculturally (economically as well but I won't go into that) as we would be open to the world as a people of our own. The awareness of "Yoruba brotherhood" all over the world will be in full force

Konquest:
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Seeing his picture just gives me
goose pimples right now...

The kind of feeling I got seeing another
photograph of Oluale, one of the
people of Yoruba ancestry who
was on board the last slave ship
to sail into the Southern United States
in 1860 shortly before the American
Civil War started. The Yoruba traders
were captured as prisoners of war
and sold by the king of Dahomey along
with a Fon nobleman, and some
Tapas or Nupes and taken to Alabama.

At the end of the Civil War, they did
not have money to go back to
Africa and so they lived in Africa Town
in Alabama.


I will attach Pa. Oluale's picture in his
old age shortly after 1900. Their descendants still live in Alabama
and other U.S. cities. A DNA test would
further prove where they come from
in Africa.

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UPDATE:

I have just attached the 1912 picture of Pa Oluale Kossola
[who is also known as Charlie Lewis, the YORUBA man in Alabama
who was taken as a captive from Dahomey to the Southern United States
on board the CLOTILDA, the last slave ship or schooner to sail for the
United States and arrived in Mobile, Alabama on Sunday July 8, 1860].

The 1912 picture is the second PICTURE BELOW.

salford1:
Candido da Fonseca Galvao, the Yoruba Prince of Brazil.
Candido da Fonseca Galvao ( Sheets , 1845 – 1890 ) was a military officer in Brazil.

Candido da Fonseca Galvao was probably a son or grandson of Yoruba King Abiodun of Oyo Empire in the area now known as South West, Nigeria. He was recognized as a foreign sovereign by the Brazilian monarchy, and was known as Dom Oba II d’Africa, or simply Dom Oba.

Originally sold into slavery, he however, exemplified the type of free men of African descent who lived in and contributed to Brazil. A royal prince with bloodline from Yorubaland; on a quest for adventure.
He voluntarily enlisted to fight in the War of Paraguay and due to his great bravery and outstanding martial skills he was awarded an honorary officer of the Brazilian army.

After the war, he settled in Rio de Janeiro, becoming a legendary figure of folkloric proportions. He was revered and adored as a royal prince by the millions of African Brazilians of his time. He was an inspiration, a leader and a father figure for those very African Brazilians in their struggle to live with dignity, to establish fairness in a prejudiced Brazil.
Dom Oba was a personal friend of the Emperor D. Pedro II whom he regularly visited in his court each year, and where he was received with all full honours due to a sovereign dignitary.

He was also a committed abolitionist and began a campaign to combat racism.

He was a monarchist in his political outlook. Thus, with the fall of the Empire in 1889 he fell out of favour with the republicans because of his monarchist sentiments. He died soon after in July 1890.
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Tequilah:
What happened to his descendants in Brazil? Are they still alive? Someone should really do a film or something on his life history.

Konquest:
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@Tequilah

@salford1 might have a direct answer to YOUR question... but I think his descendants
might be in the Bahia State which is the EPICENTER of Yoruba Descendants in Brazil
where akara Ijesa and the Yoruba religion
of Ifa are widely practised.

Candido DaRocha, the very wealthy Ijesha-Yoruba returnee from Brazil built a replica of the Water House located along Kakawa Street on Lagos Island, in Bahia, Brazil before
1900.

Some of Candido DaRocha's family are still living in Bahia till today. He had 2 family
branches: the Nigerian branch and the
Brazilian branch.

The founder of ADRAO International School in Victoria Island is his daughter.

I feel we ignore the link between us and Yorubas in the Caribbean and South America too often.

Respect to the man.

bettes:
I will upload a short documentary that featured on CNN's Inside Africa on Afro Brazilians in Lagos island his great grand daughter featured in it,i featured in it as well.