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XAUBulls:
How's it going Sukkot?

Nice feedback from you here!

The female founder of the hugely popular ADRAO International School on Victoria Island, Lagos is a descendant of Candido da Rocha. Da Rocha is embeded in the ADRAO acronym.

There is a full website that is dedicated to documenting the lives of Yoruba returnee families from
Bahia in Brazil and Havana in Cuba and the family branches they left behind when they returned to
Yorubaland as freemen and women from the 1840s.

The Bahia-born, Ijesa mogul, Candido da Rocha built an exact replica of his iconic late 1800s Brazilian mansion named Water House on Kakawa St., Lagos Island, in Bahia as well... Both mansions still standing. I'll give you the website link later.


Indeed! You are right. Many of them were Egba, Owu, Ijebu, Oyo, Ijebu, etc, returnees to mainly
Lagos Island and Abeokuta, who had been taken as prisoners of war and taken out on slave ships to the
Americas. Some folks like the first
African Anglican bishop, Ajayi
Crowther (an Oyo man and the maternal grandfather of the nationalist and UK-educated land surveyor Herbert Macaulay) were rescued from the Portuguese slave ship named "Esperanza," heading for Brazil from the Lagos Island slave port in the early 1800s. The "Esperanza" was captured by British Navy Squadrons and taken to Freetown in Sierra Leone.

Some of the freed Yorubas later got educated, bought and fixed the impounded slave ships and become very wealthy men who were into international trade along the West Coast of Africa and shipped commodities to
Europe and Brazil.

They maintained magnificent houses in Freetown and Lagos Island, and could afford to go on holidays to England and sent their kids to Oxford and Cambridge
Universities all before and after 1900!

It was part of this group of wealthy Yoruba returnees from Brazil, Cuba, U.S.A, Sierra Leone of the late 1800s who were more Europeanised, that bought up those huge Lagos and Ogun lands on lease from the original indigenes. Later on through
Nigerian naturalization laws of
1960, they and their descendants
too became Lagos Island indigenes though Awori-Yorubas are the REAL indigenes of Lagos Island. Brazilian Quarters is where the music star and Grammy winner, SEAL comes from, Yoruba returnees from Cuba settled in the axis of Popo Aguda/Campos Square, Yoruba Saro (Sierra Leone) returnees settled in Olowogbowo area of Lagos Island, etc.

XAUBulls:
How's it going Sukkot?

Nice feedback from you here!

The female founder of the hugely popular ADRAO International School on Victoria Island, Lagos is a descendant of Candido da Rocha. Da Rocha is embeded in the ADRAO acronym.

There is a full website that is dedicated to documenting the lives of Yoruba returnee families from
Bahia in Brazil and Havana in Cuba and the family branches they left behind when they returned to
Yorubaland as freemen and women from the 1840s.

The Bahia-born, Ijesa mogul, Candido da Rocha built an exact replica of his iconic late 1800s Brazilian mansion named Water House on Kakawa St., Lagos Island, in Bahia as well... Both mansions still standing. I'll give you the website link later.


Indeed! You are right. Many of them were Egba, Owu, Ijebu, Oyo, Ijebu, etc, returnees to mainly
Lagos Island and Abeokuta, who had been taken as prisoners of war and taken out on slave ships to the
Americas. Some folks like the first
African Anglican bishop, Ajayi
Crowther (an Oyo man and the maternal grandfather of the nationalist and UK-educated land surveyor Herbert Macaulay) were rescued from the Portuguese slave ship named "Esperanza," heading for Brazil from the Lagos Island slave port in the early 1800s. The "Esperanza" was captured by British Navy Squadrons and taken to Freetown in Sierra Leone.

Some of the freed Yorubas later got educated, bought and fixed the impounded slave ships and become very wealthy men who were into international trade along the West Coast of Africa and shipped commodities to
Europe and Brazil.

They maintained magnificent houses in Freetown and Lagos Island, and could afford to go on holidays to England and sent their kids to Oxford and Cambridge
Universities all before and after 1900!

It was part of this group of wealthy Yoruba returnees from Brazil, Cuba, U.S.A, Sierra Leone of the late 1800s who were more Europeanised, that bought up those huge Lagos and Ogun lands on lease from the original indigenes. Later on through
Nigerian naturalization laws of
1960, they and their descendants
too became Lagos Island indigenes though Awori-Yorubas are the REAL indigenes of Lagos Island. Brazilian Quarters where the music star and Grammy winner, SEAL comes from,
Yoruba returnees from Cuba settled in the axis of Popo Aguda/Campos Square, Yoruba Saro (Sierra Leone) returnees settled in Olowogbowo area of Lagos Island, etc.

XAUBulls:
Smackdown list of Yoruba family names from the 1800s!

You forgot the St. Mathew Daniels family of Bamgbose area of Lagos Island and their millionaire patriach who owned a lot of Lagos land and real estate. The vast Ojo Barracks in
Lagos is built on original St. Mathew Daniels family land acquired in the 1970s.

Respect to all the ancestors of royal family bloodlines and more from
Ijesa, Egba, Oyo, Ekiti, Ijebu,
Yewa, Ketou, Anago, etc, who against all odds came back in the 1800s from slavery in Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad, U.S.A via Liberia, Sierra Leone, etc, to become before 1900, hugely successful professionals, millionaire traders, and international business people or African Merchant Princes like they are called in the history books.

XAUBulls:
Absolutely Sukkot!

The iconic DAKOVA.

All the Vaughans are related and of
Egba descent from Abeokuta.

Sadly, the Yoruba Vaughan
patriarch, Scipio Vaughan who was taken on a slave ship before 1810 to South Carolina couldn't make it back to Yorubaland, but his 2 sons were born by a Native American woman, and both men, who had never set foot on African soil made it back to Yorubaland in the late 1800s on their father's behalf. They became weathy men and were part of those expelled from Abeokuta to Ebute Meta in Lagos by the Egba chiefs on the suspicion that Egba Christians and others were working with the British to undermine the Egba desire to forcibly gain access to the lucrative Ijebu trading route to the sea.

As far back as the late 1960s, the iconic American publication Ebony Magazine had featured the illuminating 200 years story of the
Vaughan family descendants on both sides of the Atlantic in Nigeria and the U.S. A direct female descendant of this Egba-Yoruba man, who was the first African-American woman to earn a JD in Law served at senior level in the President Richard Nixon government back in the early 1970s!

neyobills:
Pls try to calm down and learn ,The US troops only went in for an extraction operation not real war,the U.S. obviously won’t go to war with only 3 Blackhawk’s,and the Blackhawk isn’t an attack helicopter,attack helicopters are only used for attack alone,not for transport of troops whatsoever.

litigator:
Any body can enter fast lane and achieve all rhs3 b3fore 30 self. And you 2ant mak3 I us3 myself compare am? 2hat if God says my beans go done by 45years. Especially if na those stone beans wen dey use 5 days cook. Mak3 I dey myself 2ith who go give indomie?

litigator:
I kno2 person wen achieve all these at 39. But them bury am yesterday. So, exactly what is your point?

matm:
Expect nothing.Opportunities and grace are secrets of achievements.
One can even achieve much at early stage of life and die prematurely enjoying nothing.
In any condition u find urself, in as much as u are healthy and at least can fend for urself ,be happy
All will eventually end up in d grave.

AngelicBeing:
El - Rufai the criminal has been benefiting from different past successive government despite his penchant for ethno religious extremism and ethnic cleansing, I recommend Sharia laws on him, cut off his 10 fingers and his 2 legs, nonsense and stupidity

XAUBulls:
Hello
Sukkot,

Thanks for the mention. You are actually correct here.

The 2 Vaughan brothers whose father was an enslaved Egba Prince, returned to Abeokuta then Ebute Meta in Lagos in the 1800s from South Carolina in the U.S. via Liberia on the wishes of their dying father, just like I also stated in the convo we had early this year via my other moniker.

I wonder why some folks here don't humble themselves to read instead of arguing blindly with you on historical facts.

Solofresh2:
I have always known Simpson to be a stupid fellow

XAUBulls:
Sukkot is correct in his post that you quoted.



You are also partly correct in your post. Let me emphasize here that
I also have Lagos Island maternal roots and Candido da Rocha of Lagos Island, who was an 1800s Bahia, Brazil returnee of Ijesa descent and the first Pound Sterling millionaire in Nigeria maintained 2 family branches on both sides of the
Atlantic... In Bahia and Lagos Island.

GloriousGbola:
Which kain jamb question be this. Sukkots weed stash

Kdon2:
Omu. Ft

Juanmike:
That Spurs haven't won any trophy is down to Harry. He is cursed, watch how Tottenham wins treble this season and Bayern trophy less.

Ishilove:
Sauce?

2mch:
Lmao. Elias family does not come from Ethiopia. That guy was whining you because he knows you are ignorant. Elias family are probably from Onikoyi branch and adopted an English name. That is why he claims he is from a traditional Yoruba aristocratic family. Check out his history, Taslim Olawale Elias? If you want to catch a true Lagosian, they have Muslim names too with that English name.

Taslim does not claim to come from Ethiopia . Lagos history is very funny and complicated but we are mostly descended or associate with those Oba’s. Oba of Lagos is the real Awori crown with the real Awori aristocracy. They just intermarried with Benin royalty. Those Lagos Island families are their subjects. Most to be posh adopted English names.

2mch:
He’s confused. Fashola is originally Ekiti. He’s just saying rubbish. It’s obvious the guy is not Lagosian and has no knowledge of the history of Lagos. Royalty indeed. One village chiefs son.

2mch:
Your family built nothing in Lagos I can assure you. Those names up there are responsible for most of the building in Lagos and setting up Lagos for what it is today. Your family were largely isolated and living in remote villages. Even your father cannot make the claims you are making here. Who do you think you are chatting with? Go and ask your father, Lagos Island families made all the moves for Lagos and were the richest and most educated Nigerians. So where does your family come in? Only 4-5 real royal families in Lagos. Oba of Lagos, Benin and Lagos Island Awori ancestory. Onikoyi of Ikoyi, Oyo Ancestry. Elepe of Epe, Epe Ancestry. Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Ikorodu ancestry. If your family does not belong to any of these then you don’t come from a real Lagos royal family but from a political chief subject to one of these families.

bigadler:
All the names you mentioned were passed on from slave masters to their slaves and from colonialists to their subjects, these aren't Lagos names.

There are Lagos (Yoruba) names in all areas of Lagos, those are the authentic Lagos names, not these foreign ones. Go and research the history of these names, it's nothing to be proud of...

seeme2:
Shit is going down. Yoruba people, gentle as the dove but don't step on their tail. Talk and Do people.

2mch:
Ransome-Kuti and a few others are from Abeokuta and not Lagos. The Brazilian sounding names are returnees. The English names are Yoruba Lagosian with Awori roots with old family links to Lagos Island, but they embraced Christianity or Oyinbo names. They all have their own Yoruba family names. Oyinbo used to give names by profession too. So some of those English name allude to profession of ancestors when English people landed in Lagos.

BoldBrainz:
Seriously though, when you hear certain names from Lagos, Bayelsa, Cross River and Port Harcourt, it's just very easy to know they were named as slaves by Colonialists. Ancestors of these people were so mentally oppressed that they failed to pass on history to their successive generations. So the families simply grew with names given to them by Western Colonial entities. I have a friend from Bayelsa whose name is Jimmy Bornford. Like, what the actual fvck is "Bornford" supposed to mean ?!

Just imagining myself letting my heritage die with me and failing to pass it on to my future generations !

Omoh mehn!

dragunov:
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆OBADAYAAAAH! Wahala e pọ! De de mi ra we ooo.

dragunov:
Is the cotton picker boy arguing that they own Lagos? Those mofos came back from the Americas with some gold and English and bamboozled the older inhabitants into giving them lands.🤪🤪🤪🤪😝😝😝😝😝😝

Xylon:
I reject it. I go last IJN!!