All these adults need to still grow-up man.
Why dem dey banned baggy jean for school when they worn sth that is beyond baggy 🤣😂
They tell us to stop speaking vanacular then
Now when we don't know how to speak our language well they blame us again.
Tf what do you guys want?
All these adults need to still grow-up man.
Why dem dey banned baggy jean for school when they worn sth that is beyond baggy 🤣😂
They tell us to stop speaking vanacular then
Now when we don't know how to speak our language well they blame us again.
Tf what do you guys want?
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The Europeans Saw an Opportunity for Good Business: The Uncomfortable Truth About the Slave Trade in Badagry
When we read that Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease on a rundown brewery site at St. James’s Gate in Dublin on 31 December 1759, agreeing to pay a fixed annual rent of £45, we tend to see it as a stroke of genius. It was a remarkable deal, after all. Both parties agreed to the terms. The site was idle, its previous tenant had gone bankrupt, and the landlord had little incentive to spend money maintaining a property from which he was deriving no profit. Arthur saw an opportunity where another man saw little value. It was a good deal, perhaps, for a shortsighted landlord.
This is somewhat how I have come to view the so-called triangular transatlantic slave trade, particularly along the West African coast, in the region historically known as the Slave Coast.
I have long held the view that the security of a people is ultimately their responsibility. If Europeans succeeded in taking our forefathers into slavery, I reasoned, it was because our people were vulnerable, divided, and, in many respects, disadvantaged by their circumstances. I have never been inclined to blame the West exclusively, even though I have always acknowledged the profound cruelty and inhumanity with which enslaved Africans were treated.
However, my visit to the first storey building in Nigeria, in Badagry, changed the way I looked at this history. As I stood within those walls and reflected on events that unfolded long before I was born, I began to appreciate more deeply an ancient Yoruba saying:
Tí ikú ilé �� bá pani, t'òde ò lè pani.
If destruction does not come from within, it is far less likely to come from outside.
The experience reinforced my longstanding convictions and gave a new dimension to the anger I felt as the tour guides recounted the events surrounding the slave trade.
One of the guides began by making a distinction that has stayed with me: slavery is not the same as the transatlantic slave trade. Slavery already existed in African societies before Europeans established the transatlantic trade on a large scale. Europeans did not arrive to find a continent entirely unfamiliar with human bondage. They encountered existing systems of slavery and found local rulers, merchants, and slaveholders willing to supply human beings in exchange for material gain.
This is the part of our history that I believe we must confront more honestly.
The local slaveholders already regarded the people under their control as their property. Within the prevailing customs and power structures of their societies, they exercised authority over their lives. Yet, when European demand created an opportunity to profit further from that control, many chose to sell them into a foreign system of exploitation.
Think about that for a moment.
These were people who already held power over other human beings. They knew that those they sold would be taken away from their communities, yet they proceeded with the transactions. Their desire for greater wealth and other material benefits became more important than the lives and welfare of the people they sold.
For me, this is where the deepest moral indictment lies.
The Europeans came with commercial interests, maritime capabilities, and access to international markets. They recognised an opportunity in an existing system and exploited it. Their dealings with enslaved Africans were frequently marked by appalling cruelty and a profound disregard for human life. But we must not allow our understandable condemnation of European brutality to obscure the responsibility of those who made the trade possible from within our own societies.
The Europeans did not have to capture every enslaved person themselves. They could purchase people from local suppliers who already held them in bondage. African rulers, merchants, and intermediaries were not merely spectators to this trade.
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Served as executive for 2 sessions
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