Archives Tag: colonial masters
ThrowBack Thursday–Henry Carr: A Foremost Scholar & Educationist Who Dined With The Colonial Masters
April 19, 2022
Henry Rawlingson Carr was born on August 15, 1863 to Amuwo Carr and Rebecca Carr who were liberated Saro (Sierra Leonean) emigrants of Yoruba extraction. It was in the days after the bombardment of Lagos in 1851 by the British military forces but he grew up all the same in the Lagos of British Nigeria. … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday–Henry Carr: A Foremost Scholar & Educationist Who Dined With The Colonial Masters
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ThrowBack Thursday: When Oba Eshugbayi Eleko Fought Colonial Masters To Defend His Subjects (2)
April 19, 2022
Oba Eshugbayi Eleko was the only Oba of Lagos that assumed the title of ‘Eleko of Eko’, others took the title of ‘Oba of Lagos. However, his reign is remarkable because he was fiercely defended his subjects against colonialism like they were co-owners of the bustling city of Lagos in the early 20th century. Eshugbayi’s … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: When Oba Eshugbayi Eleko Fought Colonial Masters To Defend His Subjects (2)
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ThrowBack Thursday: When Oba Eshugbayi Fought Colonial Masters To Defend His Subjects
April 19, 2022
Though the British did not witness any other violent resistance from Lagos after the British forces bombardment in 1851. Oba Eshugbayi Eleko, however, constituted one of the fiercest resistance to the effective running of Lagos and the whole of Nigeria by the colonialists. Oba Eshugbayi, born in the 19th Century to Oba Dosumu who ceded … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday: When Oba Eshugbayi Fought Colonial Masters To Defend His Subjects
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