₦airaland Forum

codemaniacs:
stop deflecting... this is not a Yoruba culture topic, the topic is about madam tinubu...

anyone can claim any ethnicity on the internet...

thebosstrevor:
I am just pissed up with this nonsense. This woman (Madam Tinubu sold many Yorubas to the French, Portuguese, English and the Americans during her time, she was evil and didn't end slave trade but wanted it to continue so that she can make more money. she, in fact, wanted to poison the General the British sent to end the slave trade in Lagos after cries from the British enlightenment group against the sales of humans in Lagos.

Lagos and Dahomey (Benin republic) were headquarters of the slave trade in West Africa. The African elites( chiefs, kings and merchants) of those time sold their people to slavery for a profit. Africans sold themselves into slavery like the elites are still doing till today, selling us into misery while they get rich.

The formidable Madame Tinubu, a major trader in slaves and other goods, who strongly opposed the British intervention at Lagos, was believed to be plotting to drive out the British and the Sierra Leonean repatriates and to revive the slave trade (slavery and the birth of an African by kristen mann)

the British task force who patrolled the Atlantic ended the slave trade, that led to the British navy bombardment of lagos in 1851 and the installation of king akintoye and later on dosumu who agreed to end slave trade in lagos, madam tinubu and other slave traders were angry and moved to badagry and the ikorodu slave market to continue their slave trading business.

If the British didn't stop slavery, Lagos will still be selling slaves till today.

MADAM TINUBU IS EVIL AND SHOULD NOT BE MENTION AT ALL. SHE SOLD MANY YORUBAS INTO SLAVERY. MANY YORUBAS ENDED IN FREE TOWN AND OTHER PART OF THE WORLD BECAUSE OF HER.

Pls read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos_Treaty_of_Cession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_Between_Great_Britain_and_Lagos,_1_January_1852
slavery and the birth of an african by kristen mann

ajl:
Please don't confuse Bola Tinubu's name with that of Madam Tinubu. They are not related. Bola Tinubu is simply a name dropper thats originally from Osun State.

gideonjeta:
Born Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa around 1805 in Ojokodo, Egbaland — Her mother’s name was Njieddee. After her first husband died, leaving her with two sons, she took to business and succeeded before marrying Prince Adele Ajosun In 1833, which resulted in her moving to Agbadarigi (Badagry), Lagos amid claims that she seduces men with charms.
Sadly, she lost two sons to malaria while in Badagry — a famed slave port in Nigeria that transported over 550,000 slaves across the Atlantic. While her husband returned home in 1835, she stayed back and prospered through her newfound status.
By this time, she dealt in arms, ammunition, tobacco, salt and most importantly, she became a slave trader. After Oba Ajose died, she used her influence to install Oluwole , the Prince as King, despite the circumstances and married her husband’s military strategist, Yesufu Bada .

Slave Trade
By this time, Pulse reports that her, “ continued to grow her business and created a monopoly in the palm oil business and in slave trade well. The ammunition she got from selling slaves were used in the Yoruba wars of 1840s and 1850s. Her business acumen in this area made her very rich and powerful. ”
Just as this was happening, she established Palm Wine trading routes with Brazil , Portugal and Europe which opened trading opportunities with the British for slaves. Reports however exists that she couldn't distinguish between Nigerian and foreign slaves.
Upon the sudden death of her son, Oluwole, she again made her brother-in-law, Akintoye to become King of Lagos to whom she became the close ally. Akintoye in turn rewarded her with an incredible status in real estate and influence for her business.
She however contacted trouble when she wanted to stop slave trade after she learned of their torture and sufferings aboard slave ships and in plantations.

Exile and Slavery Abolition
In May, 1856, she challenged the power of British Consul, Benjamin Campbell while rooting against the British government and their rule. He retaliated by confronting her with gunboats to exile her from Lagos.
Of her later years, she “moved to Abeokuta where she traded in firearms and gunpowder being a major supplier during the war against Dahomey. Through her political influence and power, Madam Efunroye was able to get many traditional rulers including Oba Akintoye to sign documents that ended Africans selling other Africans to the Europeans .”
She later also flourished in her coconut oil business, as news of her witchcraft spread far and wide. However, she was named ‘Iyalode of Lagos ’ which roughly translates to, “ Women leader”, an influential post that belonged in the king's inner circle.
While rumours swirled that she continued slavery till her death, she died in Abeokuta in 1887. Tinubu square is named after her.

https://www.nigerialog.com/culture/how-iconic-yoruba-merchant-aided-abolishment-of-slavery-in-1800s/new/#new

luminouz:
The Israelites in the Bible under Pharaoh nko
They blacks or they spent less years??

flyca:
How is it that I find this “Tinubu” report manipulated

Okay, tomorrow “history” will tell us it again that this woman is Jagaban's grandmother. Awwww, kindness and tenderness runs in their family. Awwwww he's fit run for presidency in 2023.

Dear electorates, behold the preliminary “image-making”

musicwriter:
@dominique

Africans did not write the histories. The Europeans wrote it and they could have put whatever they wanted in the books from where we picked it up. Slavery had been going on in Europe for over 2,000 years before white people arrived Africa. When slavery ended in Europe, they simply moved their trade to other continents not just in Africa. They were also in North America, South America.

The True History of Slavery and Slave Acquisition in Africa www.africason.com/2016/03/the-true-history-of-slavery-and-slave.html

Stallion93:
But they didn't sell themselves into that slavery na and I think that was for 400 years too

Ugosample:
They were forced into slavery too

430 brutal years

Stallion93:
you're talking nonsense. Why don't the Africans give out their own Aids and mentally subjugate the recipients? Why D F u guys just enjoy defending Black mediocrity? we have a huge problem Period!!

awelekiti:
I know. But the truth is he bears that name and that has brought him to fame.

Ugosample:
Look at this one

So the passing of historical events from father to son as it was done is also fictitious abi?

in my family lineage, we keep our history intact, and tell it from father to son to grandson for over 300 years.

The Aro people dealt badly with my village back in the day.
I don't need a European to tell me that, because it's history passed down for decades upon decades

And yes you are right, slavery has been practiced for millennia

After all ancient Egypt also brutally used slaves (Hebrews) for over 400 years

ajl:
Yes, you are right. He already achieved his goal of "stealing and using a name that is not his. He knew how naive Nigerians are, in this case Lagosians.

musicwriter:
Nobody said slavery never happened. I said it happened by coercion, war, fraud, kidnapping and I explained in the given link.

For example; the Aro Ndizogu you quoted was a town that had a shrine where Igbo people went to consult the Gods to settle dispute in those days. What the shrine keepers did was to trick people by talking from a pipe buried under the ground from a hidden room, and when people heard the voice, they believed the Gods were speaking. They'll then take the visiting team, one by one through a dark channel where they'll steal one of the visitor, if they believed he/she was the one at guilt. Once the individual has been stolen, they'll kill a goat or some other animal and make the visiting team see the blood pass by. This way, they''ll trick the visitors that the Gods has killed the guilty person. The visiting team goes back home, not realizing they've been tricked and that the Gods never killed anybody. The unfortunate man or woman would then be sold off as slave.

As you can see, it was a crime to sell-off a human being and that's the reason it was done by fraud.

Again, nobody was openly selling human beings in a market unless the white man has coerced people. Eventually, as a result of too many missing people, it lead to war between communities all over Africa, and the white man provided weapons of war, which even escalated the trade.

janejive:
Thank-you Brotherly

gideonjeta:
Born Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa around 1805 in Ojokodo, Egbaland — Her mother’s name was Njieddee. After her first husband died, leaving her with two sons, she took to business and succeeded before marrying Prince Adele Ajosun In 1833, which resulted in her moving to Agbadarigi (Badagry), Lagos amid claims that she seduces men with charms.
Sadly, she lost two sons to malaria while in Badagry — a famed slave port in Nigeria that transported over 550,000 slaves across the Atlantic. While her husband returned home in 1835, she stayed back and prospered through her newfound status.
By this time, she dealt in arms, ammunition, tobacco, salt and most importantly, she became a slave trader. After Oba Ajose died, she used her influence to install Oluwole , the Prince as King, despite the circumstances and married her husband’s military strategist, Yesufu Bada .

Slave Trade
By this time, Pulse reports that her, “ continued to grow her business and created a monopoly in the palm oil business and in slave trade well. The ammunition she got from selling slaves were used in the Yoruba wars of 1840s and 1850s. Her business acumen in this area made her very rich and powerful. ”
Just as this was happening, she established Palm Wine trading routes with Brazil , Portugal and Europe which opened trading opportunities with the British for slaves. Reports however exists that she couldn't distinguish between Nigerian and foreign slaves.
Upon the sudden death of her son, Oluwole, she again made her brother-in-law, Akintoye to become King of Lagos to whom she became the close ally. Akintoye in turn rewarded her with an incredible status in real estate and influence for her business.
She however contacted trouble when she wanted to stop slave trade after she learned of their torture and sufferings aboard slave ships and in plantations.

Exile and Slavery Abolition
In May, 1856, she challenged the power of British Consul, Benjamin Campbell while rooting against the British government and their rule. He retaliated by confronting her with gunboats to exile her from Lagos.
Of her later years, she “moved to Abeokuta where she traded in firearms and gunpowder being a major supplier during the war against Dahomey. Through her political influence and power, Madam Efunroye was able to get many traditional rulers including Oba Akintoye to sign documents that ended Africans selling other Africans to the Europeans .”
She later also flourished in her coconut oil business, as news of her witchcraft spread far and wide. However, she was named ‘Iyalode of Lagos ’ which roughly translates to, “ Women leader”, an influential post that belonged in the king's inner circle.
While rumours swirled that she continued slavery till her death, she died in Abeokuta in 1887. Tinubu square is named after her.

https://www.nigerialog.com/culture/how-iconic-yoruba-merchant-aided-abolishment-of-slavery-in-1800s/new/#new

KUNZEH:
Interesting

gideonjeta:
Born Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa around 1805 in Ojokodo, Egbaland — Her mother’s name was Njieddee. After her first husband died, leaving her with two sons, she took to business and succeeded before marrying Prince Adele Ajosun In 1833, which resulted in her moving to Agbadarigi (Badagry), Lagos amid claims that she seduces men with charms.
Sadly, she lost two sons to malaria while in Badagry — a famed slave port in Nigeria that transported over 550,000 slaves across the Atlantic. While her husband returned home in 1835, she stayed back and prospered through her newfound status.
By this time, she dealt in arms, ammunition, tobacco, salt and most importantly, she became a slave trader. After Oba Ajose died, she used her influence to install Oluwole , the Prince as King, despite the circumstances and married her husband’s military strategist, Yesufu Bada .

Slave Trade
By this time, Pulse reports that her, “ continued to grow her business and created a monopoly in the palm oil business and in slave trade well. The ammunition she got from selling slaves were used in the Yoruba wars of 1840s and 1850s. Her business acumen in this area made her very rich and powerful. ”
Just as this was happening, she established Palm Wine trading routes with Brazil , Portugal and Europe which opened trading opportunities with the British for slaves. Reports however exists that she couldn't distinguish between Nigerian and foreign slaves.
Upon the sudden death of her son, Oluwole, she again made her brother-in-law, Akintoye to become King of Lagos to whom she became the close ally. Akintoye in turn rewarded her with an incredible status in real estate and influence for her business.
She however contacted trouble when she wanted to stop slave trade after she learned of their torture and sufferings aboard slave ships and in plantations.

Exile and Slavery Abolition
In May, 1856, she challenged the power of British Consul, Benjamin Campbell while rooting against the British government and their rule. He retaliated by confronting her with gunboats to exile her from Lagos.
Of her later years, she “moved to Abeokuta where she traded in firearms and gunpowder being a major supplier during the war against Dahomey. Through her political influence and power, Madam Efunroye was able to get many traditional rulers including Oba Akintoye to sign documents that ended Africans selling other Africans to the Europeans .”
She later also flourished in her coconut oil business, as news of her witchcraft spread far and wide. However, she was named ‘Iyalode of Lagos ’ which roughly translates to, “ Women leader”, an influential post that belonged in the king's inner circle.
While rumours swirled that she continued slavery till her death, she died in Abeokuta in 1887. Tinubu square is named after her.

https://www.nigerialog.com/culture/how-iconic-yoruba-merchant-aided-abolishment-of-slavery-in-1800s/new/#new