The Shocking Truth About Nigeria’s Slave Trade History!
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- The Shocking Truth About Nigeria's Slave History is a video where Tayo Aina Explores the slave history in Nigeria with a trip to Badagary in Lagos. I learn about the trans-Atlantic slave trade and also share my thoughts on how Nigeria and West Africa's history can be preserved.
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Thank you for the history lesson. We need to know our past as Africans in oder to understand our future...
Thanks Trudy. You are very correct. 👊🏽
Thanks for this Tayo🙏🙏
Where are the boats? 12 million people is a lot. what where they feed? How many people hired to capture people?
Why Africans in the states never heard of Atlantic slave trade ? They say we are different and i concur.
Why our ancestors never passed down stories of Africa?
@@TayoAinaFilms clearly you don't know your history
@@pheleekseh1391 How many do you want to know? Do you think African history is the only slave trades? You will only know a fraction of it which he knows.
One of the most important things I got from This story is our leaders at that time were selling their people for cheap objects that made them look rich... Something we still suffer today
I think they were gullible and quite foolish because they thought those items were of significant value when they were actually not. Even our own artefacts that were looted were much more valuable.
Still today as you have said, we continue to sell each other out. It's quite sad.
Rulers pls
Some things Never change. Sad
History repeats itself. ,,,😭😭😭😭😭
Sounds like the present leadership of Africa
“We have been betraying ourselves” - tour guide the most profound statement in this video . As a Nigerian who lives in the US I am constantly confronted with the hazards of the transatlantic slave trade . It’s important that we Nigerians begin to own up to the role that our ancestors played in this human atrocity. Thanks Tayo for shining a light on this
You? Why? What stories do you have to tell? I’d love to hear.
BLACK AMERICANS WAKE UP!!!THEU YRYING TO BAIT AND SWITCH US.
Two different stories.
Where in the USA IS YOUR FAMILY?
Did you do your DNA test?
I’ll wait
I’m glad u can at least admit the true history of this. It’s somewhat taught here n the States but they’re having a whole issue with the Critical Race Theory at the university level
You see the problem with this is 'Nigeria' itself. It is a man made construct which was originally set up to be a company to fund Britain. There are people living in this 'Nigeria' who don't even see themselves as Nigerian. Back in the days of these slave trading atrocities there were some ethnic groups who suffered immense loss of people but they weren't as powerful to fight back and trade their enemies to the Europeans. However, these ethnicities are now they are part of this construct called 'Nigeria' they are now expected to be held accountable for the the ethnicities that participated heavily in people trade. Blame needs to be proportioned accordingly and Nigerians need to at least get the ball rolling by apologising to their fellow Nigerians as well.
@@mikkionthebeat7005 i will admit that slavery topics are lucrative for tourism.
@@DionneEguono if you want to go on that premise, than you also have to agree that the Whole of Africa is a man made construct , with our borders drawn up by the Whyte man in Berlin in the 1800’s . The rest of Africa is not complaining about it. As Black people we should work together for the Betterment of ALL Black people. Tribalism has not helped anyone till date. Tribal wars led up to us selling each other for slavery in the past, when are we going to learn in the present that tribalism helps no one. It’s only used as a tool by the politicians, and dissidents to maintain their goal posts.
As African Americans we need to face and accept the truth of our ancestors part in the slave trade. It's a bitter, heartbreaking truth in which I believe once we accept it will bring healing to us as a people
"Our ancestors"? My Ancestor was on a boat sold by theirs.
Tribes were selling conquered tribes into slavery. Just because they shared a skin color does not mean they share a culture. Europeans have fought each other more years and they share a skin color as well
I agree!!
Slavery has always existed within any civilization and culture. The Romans enslaved all other Europeans, the Dutch, English, French, Germans, Spanish etc etc. The Egyptians and Chinese as empires in Civilization all enslaved from within or outside of their people
*The only difference with the Europeans enslaving African was the inhuman way that they treated the Africans by making laws and cooking up scientific lies that the African was the equivalent to a monkey, that the African was unintelligent, thr way the separated families, raped the women, used men as bulls by taking one strong male from plantation to plantation to impregnate the females.
There's no precedent in all human history that can match or challenge the inhuman and barbaric ways that the European people and their government subjected to the African.......like the man said in this clip his family used go own slaves...this was common practice all across Africa but the slave was never treated like an animal and it was so easily for the Europeans as the colour of the African people made it impossible for them to escape......you must know that at this time the Irish people were also slaves but because they were white to could fun away yo the next town. The African couldn't and the Irish were treated like human beings
This is where the roots of African Americans come from which is Nigeria we were the Igbo then heeboes then Negroes then nigger now nigga
As an African American , I thank you for this. My father taught me early in life to always remain connected to our motherland, and to remember that we were people before the slave trade. I only recently learned that my DNA is mostly Nigerian, and the rest is a mixture of all of West Africa. I hope to make it to Nigeria someday.
We Nigerians love you. Keep serving the Lord Jesus Christ, your citizenship is heaven ❤❤
“We betrayed ourselves.” That’s deep. As a person born in the diaspora, it’s important but painful to confront this fact.
Sadly, we have not stopped. We are still betraying each other in so many aspects.
@@eyeswideopen6891 Touché
There's plenty of blame to go around.
I don't deny that racism exists. But we shouldn't act like everything revolves around it either. Or use it as an excuse to deny personal responsibility.
@@bbtfan4617 Facts 💯
Betrayal or devide & conquer? Muslims are trading slaves in Africa to this day for more than 1400 years.
Great Video fam! My whole family is from the Deep South of America and they did the Ancestry DNA 🧬 test. Our largest percentage was Nigeria 🇳🇬. I now live in Ghana 🇬🇭, but planning a Lagos Trip soon. Blessed 🙏🏿
@Zayloc23. Bless man, and you are welcome in Nigeria at any time. I have been following your journey in Ghana. Your house is coming up strong
@@ObaOrisha Peace & Honors fam 🇳🇬 !! Thank you 🙏🏿!
Bless brother. As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end . All children of Africa will unit . Stay bless
you got a new subscriber ,
@@paaglobal Blessed Love iyah
I'm proud to finally watch something told by ourselves were we ain't playing the victims but instead taking acknowledging our own doings and taking ownership for them.
Agreed
I agree too. But I'm thanking the yt man for ending it! Yet Blck males are still carrying on to this day!!! Yes, millions still slaves, bc of you males!
As an African American it brings me so much pain, because there are some Nigerians I have met that still treat African Americans as we are beneath them, not all but a few that I have met
OMG
vice versa, some African Americans also make fun of Africans
they can't just treat you the way you said, tell your own side of the story
Americans always make fun of africans. Their skin tone, their accent, their hair, etc. everything that actually makes them "black" because they try so hard to dissociate from africans. Be honest! Those nigerians you're talking about are just defending themselves. In Africa, most people who are aware of your existence think you are cool, so stop this!
AFRICA IS BROKEN DOWN NOT BY COLOR BUT TRIBES. SO YES BLACK TRIBES SOLD Others BECAUSE WE NOT THE SAME. THE ONES SOLD WERE THE CHOSEN DEUTERONOMY 28
Hits different when these stories are told from an African perspective! We must tell our own stories. Powerful!
You ain’t never lie!
@Tony Brown I like you have will to do what i like.
It was interesting learning about slavery from another narrative.
I thought I’d learn something new.. and i did.
I see a slavery exhibition for tourism in near future.
I mean after the success of Ghana welcome home! 2019.
Why not capitalize off of people ignorance.
It does. We rarely hear it from that perspective.
I’ve never heard it from another perspective or race sha
The local chiefs of those days are the political leaders and traditional leaders of today's Nigeria
Simple,a lot of people dont really grasp this, or missed this concept from the vid.We are our own worst enemies and something needs to be done about how we reason and think about one another.
@@Panther- point blank period!!!!
They are all Judas.
Very like the successors
Facts!
My dad is black - African/carribean American - Bajan mom and AA dad - Recently found I have mostly Nigerian and Ghanian ancestry through DNA testing. Definitely adding sites like these to my bucket list, it's imperative to know our true history in order to heal as people who are part of the diaspora.
nothing of any good is worth you learning about there
Hello can I talk to you
As an African American, this information (which is not taught here) is so important to those of us wishing to piece together our stolen history. Thank you!
It's not ours...well not most of us.
YES IT IS I LEARN THIS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IT IS EVEN SHOWN IN THE MOVIE ROOTS HOW DO YOU THINK THEY GATHERED THESE PEOPLE AND NOT ONLY BLACK PEOPLE WERE SLAVES IT WAS IRISHMEN CHINESE DUTCH AND SOME BLACK THAT BOUGHT SLAVES
Not taught where? It was definitely taught in my middle, high, and college courses. I'm an African-American - please be specific. SOME of us are quite aware of our history.
How painful is it to realize that without African help slavery in the Americas might never have existed? Even more surprising is all the anger never confronts the modern slave trade practiced in Mauritania, Kenya, Nigeria and Burundi to name just a few today. Slavery, in fact, is as alive and well as any time in history. Maybe your history teachers had an agenda that you were unable to discern.
Many African American Know About This History.
I don't know who needs to hear this..As a Nigerian, I fully and wholeheartedly apologise for my ancestors part in slavery whether it be as a seller or bystander. Sending my love to the warriors and survivors of slavery in the Americas (Caribbean, USA, south and central America). You are us, we are family. Ubuntu. One love.
We all come from Afrika... Mother continent of all of us.
Thank you ❤
Thank you
Thank you, ubuntu
Dna shows me to be 40 percent Nigerian, and 23 percent Congo Western Bantu peoples and several other african nations and North Africa. It warms my heart that you apologized. I accept your blessings and pray that gracious God blesses Nigeria, you and your entire family. Peace be upon you forever.
Tayo is going to win some documentary award very soon.
I really hope he does. Man’s doing a great job
There is no other way to describe it.
As an American who desperately wants to travel back to Africa...this brings me to tears. I say returning would be my ancestors hopes fulfilled...my God...💜
We will be happy to welcome you back to our great land
This makes me so sad cse I feel like I can feel my ancestors spirit through this video. Per my grandmother stories her ancestors were captured by their own n sold.. makes me sad
@@maxemeka2080 🤣🤣🤣 “Great land” you must have never been to Africa. Place is a hot mess of a dump.
Why would anyone want to go to Africa? Why would you feel a connection to the original people that betrayed your ancestors and sold them to the whte man.
nothing any good, is back there for you
During the 1500/1600s slave traders from north Africa raided southern Europe for slaves in their millions. These animals even reached northern Europe in search for victims. Despite internal European rivalries that often led to wars, European banded together to stop this atrocity targeting Europeans and destroyed these north African/Arab slave traders. In stark contrast African societies - all without exception worked closely with foreign slave traders to destroy and cause pain to African societies. That alone states alot about the mentality of black Africans then and today as seen with the multitude of corrupt evil African leaders who have ended running African nations whose sole purpose it seems to make their own people and their neighbours suffer, while they enrich themselves. As a descendant of victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Jamaican) I am just happy we today do not have to deal with that African mess anymore despite the hardships my ancestors went through.
I had the difficult experience of visiting Badagry slave market a number of years ago and taking the frightening ‘final trip’ past the ‘spirit attenuation well’ to the Point Of No Return. One of my most troubling and unexpected discoveries was that Seriki Abass, a former slave himself, ultimately became the dominant trader in the region, profiting massively by the manacles of fellow Africans. Slavery is not rooted in skin colour but in wicked human hearts; it’s not a black or a white problem, but a sin problem which, sadly, we have all historically shown ourselves capable of.
Absolutely and it can be taught to the most educated society, it's a matter of brainwashing!!!
“Slavery is not rooted in skin colour but in wicked human hearts; It’s not a black or white problem but a sin problem which sadly we have all historically shown ourselves capable of” WOW! Such a powerful and profound statement! Wonderfully said!
Amen 👏
Slavery has always existed within any civilization and culture. The Romans enslaved all other Europeans, the Dutch, English, French, Germans, Spanish etc etc. The Egyptians and Chinese as empires in Civilization all enslaved from within or outside of their people
*The only difference with the Europeans enslaving African was the inhuman way that they treated the Africans by making laws and cooking up scientific lies that the African was the equivalent to a monkey, that the African was unintelligent, thr way the separated families, raped the women, used men as bulls by taking one strong male from plantation to plantation to impregnate the females.
There's no precedent in all human history that can match or challenge the inhuman and barbaric ways that the European people and their government subjected to the African.......like the man said in this clip his family used go own slaves...this was common practice all across Africa but the slave was never treated like an animal and it was so easily for the Europeans as the colour of the African people made it impossible for them to escape......you must know that at this time the Irish people were also slaves but because they were white to could fun away yo the next town. The African couldn't and the Irish were treated like human beings
@@cushitepeople9165 your whole argument is B.S, claiming Europeans somehow treated their slaves like animals and much worse than other races that enslaved Africans or anyone else for that matter!! This has to be the most ignorant claim I’ve ever heard!! 😂You obviously have a biased animosity/ racist outlook on yt people and it clearly shows.
Most believe that white men just jumped off of boats and ran through the African country side with a cast net catching black folk… WRONG!!! 99% of black slaves were captured, retained and sold by other Blk tribes. Furthermore, these same tribes used there captives as slaves long before Europeans ever purchased a slave. These same African tribes treated there slaves in a brutal manner were many died of starvation, infection from chain bindings, beaten to death and slaughtered for no good reason. All slave owners have treated their own slaves poorly. Race has nothing to do with how slaves were treated and to think otherwise is ludicrous!! Do better research and stop with the false claims, posting bs bc it fits your own personal narratives!
This needs to be taught in schools. 🇳🇬🇳🇬
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No. This needs to be taught in homes by parents. They have taught enough fake history. We have to take control and teach our own youth and stop relying on others to do that. We are the only race of people that rely on outside sources to teach our hostory. Every parent can and should require history to ONLY be taught by them. These videos are excellent sources to get started. I plan to opt my kids out of western history lessons....every time.
When I was in primary school in Lagos, in the mid 1980s they taught all of this to us. I’m surprised a lot of millennials do not know of this.
it is kind of common knowledge in some areas in Nigeria
It is. No one wants to listen because they believe it's false since it's taught by the white and natives historical evidence. Maybe not this in depth, but it's taught.
Thank you for reconnecting us to our history
Thank you for this video Brother!
😎🙏🏾👍🏾
I visited there 3 years ago.I noticed the sea was very angry and people don’t swim in that area. I believe there is a strong connection between the slaves and the sea.
True badagry beach has a strong tide .
So sad!
Notice the sea angry? Notice the sea have trends at certain times of the year. Notice the sea act up at certain temps. write down these trends and discuss them with other sea watchers. then maybe youcan master the saes. WOW, that is what the Portuguese did from 1420's to the 1490s.
They’re not slaves….
Many of our people jumped to their death. They would rather die than go with those demons.
Thank you for always bringing excellent content. We appreciate you.
Tayo, thanks for this informative video; as Caribbean people, every bit of information gives us clues💡 to help us piece together who we are as a people. One love from Jamaica.
Its refreshing to have an actual born Nigerian explore the trading of my ancestors. Thank you for this content :) In no life time is a human life worth a glass bottle or an umbrella!!!
NEVER.. there is no price
Truth 💕
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Stalin, Hitler, Saddam, Obama, Castro, etc...
I disagree.
This is not where the Slave trade began, slaves were talked about in the Bible.
This kind of content can get you traumatised broooo
After filming Goree Island I promised myself never again...
I can only IMAGINE!! Seriously traumatizing!!💯
That's why most African descendants all over the world are living in trauma. We're wish ther African governments would accept their relatives back without having to pay for citizenship. Let us come home freely.
With all this info, what do you think the amount of ancestral curses will be? Unless you cut those chains through Jesus Christ. Not the Jesus Christ from the "Slave Bible" those white suppressors used on the slaves to keep them bounded even in the spiritual realm.
@Terrill Elliott that has nothing to do with we West African descendants in America due to the fact that, the Africans in Northern African territories now known as Egypt and or Israel were sent throughout the Mediterranean...not Turtle Island "The Americas"! We are West Africans
But if he don't traumatize us. We wont learn.
Thank you for making this video brother
This was very informative and moving
Thank you so much for this🙏
It's so refreshing hearing from Nigeria's side of story. Well Done Tayo. You beat Western Media to this. Much much respect from SA🇿🇦 Your content never disappoint
Western Media? Lmao did you just re label truth?
@@forevergone3637 Nothing trye about what the west or colonizers say lmao
True*
We all know how desperate Western Media is on twisting African history
We can't wait for paid Media. They have lost their integrity
I'm still a student in secondary school in Nigeria. I'm just finishing. I really love history and I'm always studying about the slave trade. We went on school trips to the national museum and Badagry and it really hurt to see that such historical monuments aren't maintained properly. This is our history. And it's being neglected.
I really hope one day the government sees it as something important
Hello brother, I agree with you. It's so sad. The more you learn about our history you will see things that we did. You will feel all kind of emotions. You will be amazed when you learn. Black People invented so many things. A black woman invented makeup. I just wanted to tell you that.👍
Sorry bro, you don't have leaders you only have politicians.
There's a huge difference between politicians and leaders
My mom told me about this slave trade in Nigeria and I didn't believe her😭😭
@@chiblesstheraindowninafric9932 Now you believe
Yes! Now isn't this clearly, about corruption? Price and profits, no wonder why everyone else is against the black's, because the shittism has been stratified against the black's themselves
Every since I was a child, it's like spiritually, I could sense and see things deep within my being, and as I grow older, I developed this consciousness, regarding, wrong and right
It was obvious that something was really out of place, for example, from a biblical point of view, I was lead to think and believe, that poverty were the norm, personally I could not accept it, so I've always, asking questions, but couldn't get the right answers, so I started to do my own research
I started with the bible, that's when I learned that Eygth, was the first civilized on earth, but to me Eygth was out, or rather up in the sky, plus many other, places, only to discover that these places is in Africa, I then went on further, and come to realized, that Africa, and African's, weren't in need, or wants of anything, simply means that everything you could think of was, and is there in Africa, then I wonder, then why, or how is it, a continent, fell victim, to country? There i came to realized, that it couldn't, without insider's for reason, wealth
Therefore, religious and economical subordination were stratified, to control the wealth, so there and then, the only way, was, and still is divide and rule
Even to this very moment, look at our continent, look at our music, look at the ordinary people, no one can tell me, the the gate of no return, wasn't, and still a major phycological, emotional, spiritual throma upon until this very moment, due to lack of self-esteem, African's at home, and abroad, need Leaders, politicians, in the diaspora, is still our insider's, just like in the begining of Africa trouble from day one, I could go on, and on, however, at this moment, I really need some sleep, I trust my input will be food of thoughts, it's full time to reevaluate ourselves and love each other, especially black people. One love
This is so sad, the fact that we are focusing our energy in the wrong direction... I mean we still have a lot of reconstruction to do(mentally, socially, physically etc), no more trampling on our history, people need to find their way back home.
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful piece👏👏. People need to see this and learn.
Thanks, King, for the lesson! One day, I hope to visit here.
Africa's history is sure not in books ... You wanna know the truth, get on the field ... Big ups for putting this together Tayo ... You're a Gee
Keep
Telling urrself that
@@abdulsegs okay
@@TheBetslipMovie all this things the man said here I have read them in history books, find the right one bro
It is taught in books, they literally wrote it down so future generations could copy it. Check out The Gambia they have books on the slave trade and the Arab slave trade, same as Mali, Ghana etc. Maybe in the west it’s not in your class rooms but they will have books on it. Come on man
ehr.... do both. Read books and go to the field too.
I am a descendant of one who was taken from Nigeria and enslaved in the Caribbean. The real horrors of slavery in the Caribbean need be thought in African. So there an understanding of the pain and loss of the descendant of those slaves; and a million times more what our ancestors who endured. Look what my ancestors were traded sold for. That’s always been the hardest part that my ancestors were sold by their own. The cruelty 😞. Thank you very much for this videos. Some of us descendant have been tracing our roots
It also need to be taught in Caribbean too
@@Culture23 And the rest of the world! It is hard to credit the evil in the minds of some human beings that carry out and permit these things to happen! On the other hand there have always been people that have felt compelled to stand up against these things; always a situation of good versus evil in this world! I am a 'white' person now70 years old living in the U.K., and what I refer to as 'black' issues have come to burn within me since I became friends with someone from the Caribbean from about 7 years ago. Slavery unfortunately still continues in this world to this day. I understand one can still openly buy slaves in the markets in some countries of this world; it seems there will always be human beings exploiting other human beings in this world. Brent Collins.
To be honest, growing up and being taught about slavery in Africa, we felt the pain and still feel the pain. The fact that some Western nations are still exploiting African countries' resources both human and mineral shows the evil of slavery. One disappointing fact was that powerful Africans indeed owned weaker fellow Africans as slaves themselves because I remember being told about certain families that of slavery generation. That's what is called the 'Osus' in South Eastern part of Nigeria for example.
Strange as it sounds, many Africans don't really care about their "dark skinned folk" in America. Many black Africans just want to eat and live a jolly life. I really think that black Americans should identify as Americans because there's not really much connection with Africa except for ancestry. I think it should sink in that in Africa, their ancestors were sold for gin, trinkets and the likes by some of our ancestors... some of whom continued slave trade even after it was banned. I as a Nigerian know some families that benefited and were highly involved in the trade.
The fight against racism by MLK and other visionaries was a necessary struggle and it's good that there are truly positive results from that. Descendants of black slaves in America should be firstly Americans and should be accorded equal rights.
The African connection is really only ancestral and not unnecessary for those that seek closure. But black Americans are not really Africans in a social sense because they don't really understand the social order in Africa.
My advise to the black American dreaming of Africa is that they may return to Africa and be part of the system here if they feel so drawn. But I rather advise them to be part of a country that gives them more opportunities to excel in their endeavor rather than fantasize about a dreamy picture of Africa that really doesn't exist.
Yep this part need to be taught for real, as a jamaican slavery is taught in school but not the betrayal, but i guess even teachers didnt know either
Thank you for this lesson a lot of things have been clarified
Thank you so much Tayo for this documentary, it brought me to tears, we all just want peace and the freedom to live our lives without boundaries. I love this country so much.
Thank you for sharing this story and giving us hope! Nigeria will be great again.
Now I see why this perspective is so important. It's something I've been thinking about but too scared to bring up. We can only move forward when we come together and stop betraying each other.
Hard to do though realistically speaking, people get jealous envy of other people's stuff. Their woman, their power, their wealth. This world only needs God not us. Get it? This world only needs someone like Jesus, or indian Jesus Buddha, or Muhammad. Although some Muslims took Muhammad teaching astray Muhammad was still a righteous man with a meek heart. Only when we are like our Divine Creator righteous at heart can we truly enjoy life in Earth.
Truth!!
Tayo's video is so relaxing to watch, who else agrees with me?!
I agree... @Sam Kwak you don't have to be mean...
@Sam Kwak I believe she meant the cinematography! I agree she used the wrong choice of words here
Well said, great soul!
I concore, absolutely!
I wasnt very relaxed watching him recall the history of Nigerians selling my ancestors into slavery. I’m a black American and I cried the entire video.
Thank you for this amazing story Tayo 👏
Compliment of the season 🎄❤️
Tayo, thank you 😢😢. My heart broke while watching this. Thank you for doing this for us.
I’ve been there too, my secondary school took us in 2011. We walked the same journey the slaves did to the “point of no return”. It was very heartbreaking to imagine the actual journey.
Wish it is mandatory for all school curriculum in Nigeria to visit that place
Me too in 2010. This was my first excursion
My school went there in 2017 too and the first storey building in Nigeria too.
great to learn more about the slave trade in Nigeria. i know this should be hard for you to make cause omo, if it's me, I will be crying... well done tayo
It was hard but the story had to be told 😅 . Thanks bro
my heart is heavy already
If you think it's hard imagine if your ancestors had actually been enslaved.
Greetings Brother hopefully we can reframe the narratives. These were not "slave trades" these criminal enterprises are deliberate attacks on sovereign citizens. High crimes with No statute of limitations! The only way to gain justice and departure from the pain and degrading stigma we must reframe the narratives and as said proper criminal liabilities. There is No statute of limitations. Peace and Blessings Glorify the Most High Continually.
@@TayoAinaFilms the courage you have shown is reflective of what our families exhibited. I suggest you get a copy of The Black Holocaust for beginners. By SE Anderson. I hope to tour Africa with my collection of documents and art someday before I pass away. Thanks again Brother. Glorifying the Most High Continually. Adekunle Aloya
This is very informative thank you for sharing this video.
As a Nigerian-American, i apologize to my black brother's and sisters in the America's. I admire you people for your resilience during hard times (especially African-Americans), and look up to you. I hope one day we can all be united among ourselves
Yes, if it weren't for God none of us would have been alive today. God has been with us all this time. When they sold us, they did not know who they were selling. We a true children of the most High God. Oh snap, they did witchcraft on us? Tree of memory loss? hmmm.
I am African American..I live in this hell called America for umbrellas and whiskey 😢😢
No need to apologize because it had nothing to do with you. Chances are that your ancestors not only participated in the slave trade but were also victims of it by loosing family members to it. “Nigerians” didn’t sale themselves into slavery because “Nigeria” did not even exist as a state until 1914(way after slavery ended in the Americas). Nigeria itself is an amalgamation of over 250 ethnicities forced together by the British. Many “Nigerian”kingdoms and empires were at war with each other and enslaved their neighbors. A good example is the Oyo empire who enslaved their enemies, but after they collapsed became victims of the slave trade themselves. If we are being technical, Nigerians are the victims and the perpetrators of the slave trade. The same way those that were enslaved and shipped to the Americas were victims and also perpetrators of the slave trade. History isn’t simply white and black
@@younggold1416 tout à fait
U Got Life Fck Up If U Look Up To Mfs That Look Just Like U.
It’s suppose to be a national monument to remember the lives of the slaves. The Lagos state government needs to do more and turn the place into a tourist attraction because of the future generations.
There’s a such a monument (the Gate of No Return) in Badagry, built by the Lagos government. There’s also been the Black Heritage Festival held every year in Badagry since 1999.
Why would they, they are no different from the slave masters and chiefs who sold slaves to the europeans, they are still selling out Nigerians till today.
Perhaps we should bribe them umbrellas and beer... maybe that'll motivate them. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. This is a pathetic and there's no excuse for this. #JustEmbarrassing!
Such an enlightening and depressing video. I made a trip to Salvador in Brazil a few years ago after university and I was shocked and pleasantly surprised and proud of the way Brazilians of Nigerian descent had immaculately preserved their Nigerian ancestral culture down the generations. Their ancestors may have been sold as slaves in their corporal bodies to the traders but they couldn’t sell or break their spirit.
Those were not Nigerians. Did you hear them say they sold nigerians?
@@mikejones-wn1sw I suggest you read, comprehend and enlighten yourself before making inane comments on a public platform. You’re embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.
@@AITrademarket I suggest you admit the truth goofy. It is what it is at point. The books will be open. You all stole Yahs chosen ones and sold them. They will conspire together in a attempt to cut them off from being a nation. Humble yourself. Willingly or unwillingly.
@@mikejones-wn1sw a lot of brazilians have nigerian ancestry mixed with iberian.
@@shueibdahir these are places not people. You do know this right.. Just like Africa is a place not a people. Afro is a hair style. These places named by the people who conquered these places. What is your real name? Nigeria was name in the 1970-1990s by a white woman. The people who are really from "brazil" that are indigenous to that land have a name and it is not Brazillian or nigerian. Either way you are what your father is
The tour guide is so articulate, he knows this thing and great work Tayo you doing a great work
This broke my heart. I got goosebumps and tears in my eyes as I watched this video. Thank you for putting this video together to educate us. History is very important and we need to know our roots and where we came from.
You make some of the best videos in Africa my man. I had been wondering about these sites and I heard they were neglected in Nigeria. I hope your video lights a fire under the ass of the govt to preserve them better, as it's very important history -- for all humans.
Hey sabbatical, good to see you here. been watching your videos from Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda Kenya and Rwanda Come and visit us in Ghana 🇬🇭
@@africanayasmin6210 I 1000% need to go to Ghana, lemme go find a Twi textbook real quick
Dude you're an ambassador keep trucking.
Well put, great soul
I love your channel
Chillls I was there 20 years ago for school excursion. I remember almost crying their eyes out, the arch of no return wasn't built then. I think all these history should be preserved, well done Tayo!
Imagine what they went through, the young ones to the elderly people 😭
The same way statues in America should be preserved and not torn down.
This was powerful. Thank you.
Thanks for Posting this brother. This will be one of my stops when I go to Nigeria.
Omg! 1 umbrella for 40 human beings! This gave me goosebumps 😭 . Thanks@Tayo for putting up this great piece of information.
I'm angry about it. Vanity. Destruction of blood lines. Why?
The lives were worth way more than what they're traded for 😔
Not to bash anyone but as crazy as the story is it is even more incredible that the land these slaves were shipped off to, which became their hell and which they have suffered for hundreds of years to open up is now a coveted place for Nigerians to immigrate to and to take advantage of opportunities there made possible by those same undesirables that were sold many centuries ago. It really is an incredulous story when you think about it.
That old saying "Truth is stranger than fiction" is so true.
The stone that the builder refused became the head corner stone All praises to The Most High.
Very Good Video My Brotha You Came wit The Truth Peace & Blessings To You For That & Respect ✌🏾✊🏾!!!
Wow! I'm so surprised!!! I'm so sad and heartbroken 💔 thanks for this video
Please do a part-2 of this series from Calabar. There they have a better reserved and organised museum
I agree with you
So true Calabar sites are well preserved and presented
Honestly!! The museum in Calabar is more detailed.
What’s the name?
@@carrolbusa3165 name of?
Thank you so much for this informative video☀️ i had my DNA tested as I am Puerto Rican and wanted to find my exact lineage. I found that i had great grand parents that were 100% nigerian in the 1800s. I don’t know their names or how they looked and it bothers me so much. I feel like a piece of me is missing. One thing is for sure those of us with ancestors from the Atlantic Slave Trade are descendants of survivors!!
Yes ur right
and we are the same people ,it deeper than that!! we are descendant of the 12 tribes as prophecy in scriptures..we need to WAKE UP!
Ivy Pgrv
I'm also Puerto Rican with Nigerian ancestors.
You do know Puerto Rican is technically not an ethnic group, meaning Port Rich off of the coastline of Florida look at my name meaning I've been looking also.
You must be from the western region of Nigeria. if only you can get your surname right i can help you trace it.
thanks you for All You do. Mr tayọ Jah bless you abundantly. much love and am happy to hear And learn more about my country and the pass history of our nation 😭🙏
I want to say, that which is covered in this video, is important beyond measure. Thank you for your work
_They know who we are. But it seems we don't know who we are._ Powerful statement.
We are the biblical Israelites
Each time I watch any slave video I feel so emotional
Thank you for this Tayo 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for sharing the story. God bless you.
I'm Nigerian/African American. It's hurtful when I see some Nigerians make slavery jokes about African Americans or Caribbean people. Nigerians need to understand that slavery is apart of our history too.
You are telling the true about thanks
My family is from Jamaica and an African guy called me a stuck up and a Slave when I would go on a date with him. It was the "slave" comment that hurt the most coming from an African .
@@suzettewilliams1758 ignorance sister… ignorance. Coming from a Nigerian who lives in the states now. Most Africans don’t know about slave trade and if some do, majority know the white washed history. Sad
Africa had to pay for what they did and are still paying
@@cbx360 lol wow
I think Nigeria should maintain these monuments like ghana and Senegal have done. History must be preserve to teach the next generation to never again should we allow ourselves to be enslaved by another man. Bless u Tayo. My little advice, tayo, u and the rest of the content creators should raise funds both local and international to help and rebuild the ruined structures.
I support 💯💯
Buhari is not awia....
@@Mkym365 I see you my friend ❤️😉. Good morning 🌞🇬🇭
Why do you spell Ghana with lower case 'g'?? Put some respect on the name, boy!
Nigerian government doesn’t care about its history unfortunately. Even the National museum is in need of repair.
Just having goosebumps watching this.. hope this history will really be preserved.
I've been to this slave museum and I can completely relate with everything in this video. What a nice video.
Very important and valuable content. I'm from the Caribbean. I have great ....great grand parents on both sides of my family who are from the region that now forms part of Nigeria. A large portion of my ancenstry could traced back to Nigeria. Documenting important events in history such as these, does help us to strengthen our identity and connection to each other.
Ase
Which country of the Caribbean?
What's with the pic
The Caribbean is a political region of The Americas.
Ancestry region is determined through DNA testing.
As African Americans we are always taught about our ancestors from the moment they arrived here as if it was the beginning of our existence. Videos like this help us piece together what happened before. I recently found out the majority of my DNA is Nigerian and plan on visiting in the near future. Hopefully it won't be too difficult to make use of my FPV skills there.
My DNA Is majority Nigerian as well. I Also have Ethiopian.. I'm so happy to learn this.
Almost all black Americans are Nigerians
@@Danorous 100% agree. But as I'm learning more and more, what I am learning is that we are almost all West Africans. Just as a number has been done on us here in the States, a number has also been done on those left on the continent. The way the continent has been divided was not meant for our people. So though a DNA result says majority "Nigerian" what I currently believe to be true is that way back then our people may have existed all throughout the western region. But I have a lot to learn, so this is just an opinion.
@@Free_3.0 Nigeria is the most freest country, where a black man can own his skills, business and investments...And the white man does not like this one bit, but we take ownership of our country. Of course, 100% of our own natural disaster in Nigeria, ditto most African countries is our leadership, but aside that, anything we put our minds into, we ensure we achieve them...If your FPV skills are really important to you and your race, be rest assured that Nigeria will give you the platform to express them. Good luck.
@@daenerysstormborn5557 what people in ethiopia does your dna say you are from?
This video is heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing it
Thanks for this documentary, I will really love to visit this place
Omo
These things should be kept well
And guys this is going to help Badagry get more tourism logs
This is a very indepth and painful subject Bro, my grandfather came through there the horrible experience he experience lives in me. We must never allow the narrative to be framed By the beneficiaries of our collective demise. Our unity of mind spirit and purpose is more powerful than any hydrogen bomb. Embrace our unity and see the Amazing results. Glorify the Most High Continually!
Is so unfortunate that the so called minister of tourism office is useless! There's point of no return also in Calabar/ Akwaibom, and my eyes can't believe the state(condition) of the so called museum, everything has been abandoned and the whole buildings messed up
@@ecosubb I profoundly agree..
Nice video. Note however that there was no place called Nigeria during the Atlantic slave trade . But Various kingdoms and Tribes who fought each other. European took advantage of the rivalry to manipulate and buy off slaves from rival camps to be taken to the western world unknown to the locals .
Facts well said 👏 💯 👌
Europe is paying now
@@mylifetotaly Really? How? They have money, technology, wealth and they still rule over Africa and they have All the African workers they want, so How Europe is paying?
To simply continue to blame white people it's as if you didn't even watch this video, just read the comments below from the many people telling of ancestors who participated in selling slaves, if you are simply continuing to blame white people then you are missing the points and editing historical facts, watch the video again
Africans sold their own people into slavery. I put the majority blame on those who bought and enslaved them unto perpetuity, a lifetime of slavery for the slave and for his descendants for 400 years in America under the most brutal, heinous, despicable, and cruel system of slavery ever! Generation after generation African descendants endured forced labor on sugar/cotton plantations, deliberate breaking up of families, physical brutality inflicted upon them by slavemaster, rape, and many other abominable acts of cruelty. The American slave system was the most heinous and despicable form of slavery which more than likely the African chieftains never envisioned the vast scope of monstrosities associated with it.
Interesting upload. Thank you
I appreciate this video because it's so informative more young people need to see this
What I learnt here,we Africans sold ourselves. I use to blame and insult the Europeans but this video opened my eyes
Not that this knowledge makes Europeans involvement okay but I think teaching this fact, the fact that there were Africans in the Americas that owned African slaves, and the fact that 380,000 Africans were brought to the United States in total while 300,000 Irish slaves were also brought would really help race relations in the United States, if taught. These facts don't change how the Democrat south that tried to keep slavery or how the horrible Jim Crow laws created by Democrats had their own impact but it would help.
I truly respect your honesty and hope the new found knowledge helps you live a better life somehow.
Your still ignorant if you don't know that Europeans perpetuated the slave trade among Africans. Also that slavery in the America's under British, Portuguese and spanish rule were especially savage and inhumane torture practices and even breeding plantations.
@@sqbrazy3283 dude you're also still ignorant if you don't know that most of the time we Africans sold ourselves to these slave buyers. If we all had supported each other and stayed as one(even though we might have servants) the way slave trades were high would have been lower
@@awemanyfit sir they forcefully stole many people too not all slaves were bought many were kidnapped
@@kamsionwuka3428 Exceptions don't make the rule and the rule is the mass majority was sold by their own as in every single country literally on earth. The point is why slavery still exist in black countries and not in European ones? If you want to blame the Europeans for everything be prepared for a massive reality slap across the face
This should be a museum
Valued your research on this part of history. Thank you
Thank you very much brother...keep up the good work...🇧🇸
"We been enslaving ourselves before they arrived to Africa. We betrayed ourselves"
Deep n honest
Quite important part of history. Though the type of treatment transalantic slaves suffered was beyond that of human imagination . N for sure worse than domestic slavery in a GENERAL sense.
Thank u for this education 🙏🏽❤
The treatment was no different from other slave trades, the islamic trade would castrate the men, with 8 out of 10 dying. The women were sold as sex slaves. The indian ocean trade shipped slaves to India and the ME.
The difference of the trans atlantic trade was the size in a relatively short time period.
Sad truth..!
I don't know... I went to school (in the 80s) in a very liberal area and while they were far more in-depth about the history of slavery than kids got in places I lived later.
And as a teen I saw "Roots" so the idea that white guys came and stole random people was pretty ingrained. (I was of course horrified by it all).
Much later as an adult I found out most were either captured by neighboring tribes of they their own kings had sold them.
I found that so much worse! It's one thing for a stranger to do you evil but for someone like you to deliver you into that evil, seems even worse.
How do you know the international slaves got treated worse? I doubt that
@@spriken Keep on mind that the people sold by African kings were considered prisoners of war, not family. There were also Africans that were kidnapped at gun point by white slave traders who paid for some slaves and kidnapped others. The British French and American colonizers would fund the two sides of African conflict and rob the Continent of all its riches in the mean time. STILL NO ONE HAD TO BECOME A SLAVE OWNER. NO ONE WAS FORCED TO OWN PEOPLE, IT WAS A GREEDY INHUMANE CHOICE. So the purchaser is just as much at fault as the seller. The white washed narrative has you believing That we sold our own....and stops there.
that man said something i was shown about 18 years ago...he said his father "we were powerful people, we ask the ground to open and it will open, we can disappear" an old friend of mine showed me a book written by a Portuguese in 1802 stating that in a place in west africa, he witnessed something unbelievable...that when people want to travel, they disappear using a tern called KANOKO. he said the place was called OYO. guys, kanoko means road bending. and oyo is in nigeria. a Huge empire. under the yoruba kingdom.
We have always been spiritually powerful, until Europeans came and started bastardizing our beliefs and customs. There is more to us than we know today. So many people, unfortunately, would call this a superstition.
We have forgotten who we are
I am still told to stop with this spiritual rubbish by my family when I talk about our original beliefs. They rather I pray to a white Jesus . . .
@@malama_ka_aina na who give us Jesus???
Why we no give them Orunmila baba ifa?
I came across this when i was trying to get some infos on an interview i have, found this really helpful thanks✨
@4:20 I am literally in tears but thank you @Tayo for sharing this information.
My own is even an umbrella in exchange for 40 people.
Chai
No wonder PDP enslaved Nigeria with their UMBRELLA and looted our common wealth. So, Umbrella has been doing the magic way back.
@@olumuyiwaojo3532 😂🤣 funny but sad
Shocking truth about how Europeans used technology against us.. We need to use our history to fuel our desire to be great and outdo Europe..
Shows it's likely for similar form of event to happen in future if there is a huge difference in technological advancement between societies. We would be left with similar choice again. Wake up people, let's work harder so the unborn generation will not be confronted with same choice.
It was umbrellas, pieces of glass, canons, gunpowder, guns for people… Yup pieces of glass…. Smh anyway I am in the Caribbean and happy so some of us ended up better off…
Love from Cameroon! I never waste my time When I watch your videos! thanks you Tayo!🌻
*waste
i just love your channel! Keeo up great work Tayo!
I have finally gotten the explanation I have always seeked
*Salute to Tayo for doing the Lord's work. I'm a descendant of the Brazilians that moved back to Nigeria after the emancipation and this connects dots.*
@Celia Yasmin Yes I have relatives with Portuguese last names and both my late Grandmoms names are foreign. One Portuguese the other English.
You're not a descendant of the Brazilians, you are a descendant of Nigerians that returned to Nigeria after spending time in Brazil.
@@Divinatonio Facts!!!!!!
Very sad that we don't know how to maintain historical structures like this in Nigeria... We need to learn to preserve these things so our history won't be lost again.
Or wiped out!
Religions have wiped everything away from us to the existent that we don’t really know who we are ....90% of Nigerians are now worshipping a white religions...a religions brought by a white Man to brainwash us, to destroyed our cultural roots and spirituality
This makes me laugh, because some Nigerian want their artefacts, back from British museum. They can’t even look after what they have already..
Like Lekki Toll gate
I swear bro... this can be a world class tourist center bro... it hurt and it so painful
This video is educative. Thank you for educating us through top notch videos. This also made me reflect, we are still betraying each other till today
Already knew this but brilliant piece of documentary 👍
Point of correction, Tayo, your ancestors were not "slaves" but people who had a life and loved ones and dreams who were "enslaved." They were "enslaved Africans."
Well done, as always, on a well-produced product.
Man in my house in Ghana, the last eye witiner to slave trade died a decade ago.
He was about 8 years in the era of slave trade but he died at the age of 140 yrs 2005
Well he's ancestors were never enslaved
Some ancestors we were slaves that return to Africa, tayo could be right.
We are NOT and NEVER were enslaved AFRICANS. WE ARE THE ISRAELITES THAT YOU HAMITE AFRICANS SOLD INTO SLAVERY, AND I WILL MEVER LIE TO MYSELF OR MY CHILDREN OTHERWISE. WE ARE SHEMITES AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SHEMITES, WE FLED INYO AFRICA, WE WERE NEVER PART OF AFRICA, WE CAME FROM ISRAEL. WE HAD OUT CUSTOMS AND YOU ALL HAD YOURS. YOUR FORE PARENTS KNEW WE WERE NOT THE SAME AS YOU ALL THAT IS WHY THEY ENSLAVED US AND SOLD US. YOU ARE A LIAR.😡
@@backupthings8138 How do you know?
The attenuation well is symbolic to why we must not forget our history. It's also important that we understand the role of the local chiefs and its implication even in present day Nigeria.
A light bulb went on in my head watching this video, so I pray that your light continue to brightly shine. Great job Tayo!
That's why we have to love & nurture each other, we've been through the most hell on this planet.
The mindset that willingly sold people into torture has been passed down. This is the very reason the African countries, that participated, carry the burden of a perpetual curse until we ALL become one again.
@@LynetCEshun we can't be "one again" if we were never one
We just need to figure out a way to work with each other
@@backupthings8138On a Mega level if we can only realize Satan is real and hateful ,wants us to commit ,violent and/ or selfish or greedy crimes on each other, to be also doomed to hell with it.
On a micro level, it's evil whisper, is to find a petty difference with each other,and use it to justify malice toward each other
I believe it’s Healthier for us All to Heal and forgive one another to move forward. A lot of sins were committed in the past, but pls🙏 let’s not remain there, let’s All learn from it and move forward and ensure the sins of the past does not repeat itself again.
Thank you for making these videos. I've been out of school for a long time and back when I went to school here in America, slavery was glossed over very quickly, they didn't really teach us much more than "Africans were brought over on slave ships and forced to work in the fields after they were bought at the local slave market and they were treated horribly".
If I remember correctly we spent maybe 2 hours on the subject before moving on.
The part about 40 people being sold for an umbrella made my jaw drop and my heart sink, those poor people...
Wow.... this is very educating and enlightening.
This video bought me to tears! I'm African American and my family is from South Carolina, and I recently discovered my DNA is 49% Nigerian. We always hear about what happened once my ancestors got to America, but I've never heard this part of the story. God willing one day this can be built and preserved for future generations to learn from. May God bless our ancestors that went through this to have a better and beautiful life in the next. One day I hope to be able to see this, and through being there, bring my ancestors back home. 🇳🇬❤
Same 🇳🇬
This is not where the slave trade started, Slavery is written about in the Bible, over 3,000 years ago. Slavery has always happened and is still happening now around the world.
@@pjmoseley243 The slaves in the bible (under god's laws for his people) had rights. they were not to treat them like the Europeans did. and after so many years, slaves could go free. Some people even sold themselves into slavery to pay off their debts and after they were paid, they could return to their lives. The slavery among god's people was never sadistic and cruel.
@@pjmoseley243 Go away with your Bible myth and stories as you can see everything here is African not your white religion or whatever. Plss safe that for the next post.
@@oparahokechukwu7044 who is this saying that? I have no religion. Who says I am white I am several colors of human.
Thank you so much for this video Tayo! I am from the African diaspora and recently found that most of my ancestral DNA is Nigerian and one day I hope to visit Nigeria and reconnect with my ancestral home. It is sad to see that the slave trade history is not highlighted and recognized as it should in Nigeria, so your video is a welcomed change and I hope to see more like this one!
We will b wellcome u wit our open hart sister
Welcome home sis🇳🇬🇳🇬❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for the history lesson.
😢 I sit as a descendant of one of those slaves I can only imagine how my forefathers felt cause to this day all day I long to be with my ppl to know myself to not have to fight Deuteronomy 28:68 is ringing in my head....thank you for this bro much love signed exiled Nigerian from TX
My brother you are correct. My forefathers were sent to the Caribbean. And if Deutronomy 28:68 is correct so are the scriptures that speak to the fact that YAHWEH is not done with us. He promised to regather us back to our lane that he had given us. Ezekiel 20:39-41, Amos. 9:8-9, Jere 16:14, etc. Further it makes one wonder where we settled after the Babylonian war May have been west Africa -Nigeria , Ghana , etc but that wasn’t the original land given to our forefathers- it was Israel…. May the Spirit of Truth of Yahweh guide you! ❤ blessings