Bight of Benin & Biafra: BASIC NIGERIAN HISTORY #12
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode Dr Catel investigates both the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Biafra discussing the various powers that existed during that time. Discussing the oracle of Arochukwu, as well as ports in Badagry, lagos, calabar, dahomey and bonny.
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You seriously need to do a collab video with HomeTeam History, we need as many channels teaching our perspective as possible.
And The Renassaince
Big time💪
The are doing similar thing
Some of my Ancestors came from these two nights to go to the Caribbean and USA and south American so you are talking about me so thanks for the refresh of memory.
Dear African brothers and sisters love and respect from Hindustan(Bharat)❤️💜💖🇮🇳
You are doing a great job bro! Thank you very much!
Wonderful contributions to enlightening Nigerians. You collaborated what is currently being said about which ethnic group are part of Biafra
Welcome back Dr. cartel 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Love this History series !!!
This isn't a very constructive content. You're talking about the Bight of Benin without talking about the Benin Empire?
Good job with what you're doing.. Please don't stop
This was very informative and excellent to learn, thank you.
Hello I love your animation, always inspiring....
I was wondering if you could do a video on NSIBIDI, the ancient writing Technic of South eastern Nigeria and the leopard fraternity that invented it, thanks
Noted
To clear up any misunderstanding, Arochukwu is a place. The name of the Arochukwu oracle is Ibinu-Ukpabi but Dr Catel chose not to say this as he failed to pronounce it several times. 😁
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Asked you to drop patreoin link earlier just saw this so never mind or do still.
Another excellent video!
Just to point out fact, in 1942 all the traditional rulers in the west had a meeting In Benin Kingdom and there was no traditional ruler called OBA only the OBA of Benin in Lagos they have the Eleko of Eko, in Ibadan they have Olu Ibadan, in Abeokuta you have Alake of Egba Land, In Oyo they have Alafin of Oyo In Ilesha they have Owa Obokun of Ilesha, so the title OBO only belongs to the Benin and no one else. Edo Odion
Ant Nam shut the fuck Yoruba don’t know the meaning of oba. Oba in Benin means “A child that shines for the edo people”the one that stands out.
@@k1nosagieagbon youtubas are culture vultures. Always stealing other people's culture and rewriting history like the bullshit this plvideo is spewing out.
@@k1nosagieagbon The Son that shines Brighter for the Edos( Not the child bro )
When I saw Benin I though Benin kingdom in Nigeria. Always fun to watch your vids. Would love to support you as you are one of the few good heads keeping our history alive. Please do a piece on the Benin kingdom. I don’t know why the yorubas believe we came from them. Folklores there folks told them, they have refused to let go of.
i am loving this! you are feeding me with so much information. thank you!
But Igbos claims they didn't partake in slave trade?? Meanwhile they were selling themselves.
There are Igbo communities that’s didn’t partake in it. Igbo people are not a monolith
The Nri tribe didn't partake in slave trade, more research needs to be done because Nigeria has 250 tribes but we only hear of the igbo and yoruba slaves but not the kingdoms too
Arochukwu is not pure igbo. They are a mixed half ibo half ibbio peoples. If you know the igbo religion of odinala slavery was forbiden and Igboland was a haven for runaway slaves. Those who took part in the Aro confederacy were of mixed origins and more or less not completely culturally Igbo. So no core Igbo people did not sell slaves
@@jayfizz545Your write up are contracting. Historical researhers have oroven it that the people in the now place u call Igbos sold each others to slavery. What do u call mi igbo or not core igbo? First of all, the igbo language was created by the British in late 17 centuries to balance power with the West and North of now Nigeria. The igbo people where never a tribe, but was brought to gether by the language created by the British. Go and read preper history not all these new fake history igbos formulated. Another note. There was nothing like Nri Kingdom. Stop the lies.
@@jayfizz545so arochukwu was not real igbos 😢😮😅??
Bruh Imagine if the Dahomey & the Oyo empire coulda come together to fight against the European slave traders??
Imagine if the Nigerian people can come together and fight against corrupt leaders..it shows our useless traditional leaders back in the day were corrupt just as our government now..you the the useless kings standing behind dem tinubus who are hoping down the destiny of Nigerians..African people our mumu don do..vote sowore for president
@@seunakinwunmi5742 I don't know much bout the Nigerian government but I heard it's fucked up over there still, which is unfortunate cuz Nigeria 1 of the few places in Africa I would consider living. Hopefully things change for the better
@Bolaji Windapo Bolaji Windapo Trust me bruh, I understand, I'm in America where everybody is either too radical or too lazy to do something. Or we too distracted just like in Childish Gambino "This is America" video. I heard Nigeria's leader used Trump as the reason he killed some protesters, so unfortunately our problems are connected.
@Bolaji Windapo Listen bruh, If I believed that the pple in power actually gave AF bout us to give a check I would agree. We asking our oppressors to unoppress us. It don't work like that.The racist on the other side using reparations as bait to divide black pple & the democrats just sayin it for votes. But hell yea that check is loooong over due, I just don;t trust who they tryna get it from
With what?
I noticed you never discussed that by this time, the Obaship and other traditional leadership titles that participated had been taken over or eliminated by the Muslims forced conversions. They could only use the land and water ways after up-seating many kings.
To me I didn't think there Is a place call bight of Biafra in Nigeria. I only know hear Bight of Benin. I never hear Bight of Biafra.
There's bight of Biafra. Europeans recorded it. Ancient maps hv it. It was after d civil war d Nigerian government changed d name. Biafra is a corruption of BIAGHA FULO. Meaning soup dat's always boiling. It's an Ijaw name. D Europeans couldn't pronounce BIAGHA FULO so they ended up calling it BIAFRA. Search, read about it
There was before but now is gulf of guinea
Nice. I will remember to visit the patron and drop something soon.
By his grace reply with link ronu you doing well
Who is here after hearing Benin wants to join Nigeria
Those boats are very unique and creative
Its Elem Kalabari also called Old shipping, we still have the war canoe houses but it's not the same as it used to be, please I'd like to get some references from you on history books especially on New Kalabar/Elem Kalabari I have read some already but I want more
Nice video but you can also add CC English captions. Sometimes because the accent is different I don't understand fully.
Thank you so much for this. That explains a lot
Wow! Excellent work!
lovely, and i especially love the use of chronology
Where is exactly bight of Biafra is?
Benin-Edo Ijaws- Itsekiri, and Isoko- Urhobo people were majorly where we came from also. This fact, some of us educated African-Americans know. Your reference is in the 1700's when The Benin Edo folks goes way back to the early 1000's-1200's
He is a good historian.
God bless u BoyBlack HardTruth . U r very correct
Excellent!
Your website is not even working. Jealousy Dey worry you about the achievements of the BENIN PEOPLE.
The information concerning the bight of benin is wrong
It is most unfortunate to the narrator to give wrong information to his audience. The Bight of Benin was a sea route from Portugal to the ancient kingdom of Benin in Nigeria 🇳🇬. The name Benin existed many centuries ago before Dahomey changed their name to Republic of Benin. You may also want to know the yorubas and some ethnic groups in Dahomey and other foreign land were slaves sold to the portugese by the mighty Benin Empire.
@@edwardoronsaye5284 hehe! the deduction from your narrative is summarizes; as faith would have it, they survived the enslavement ordeal and made Lagos their home. Now you want to claim it. Oya come Na. Come Na .. Mcheew!
Where is Benin people come here an know your history because some of u people don't know where people come from
The Dahomey is not the Benin Kingdom he was talking about the republic of Benin
Ken your brain is like that of a hen
Bini was not part of this. They changed their name to Benin to steal Dahomey history.. Dahomey are the Benin that owned the bight of Benin.
When you hear benin he is talking about Edo state ok
@@tralbriggs104 Go ask the Benin republic government why they came to the Oba of Benin in Nigeria to take permission to change their name from darhomey to Benin. Even the darhomey is a Bini name which is Izziodahomey but later corrupted to darhomey. The people of Benin republic still trace their ancestral home to the Binis in Benin kingdom Nigeria
Thanks
The title of this video is very misleading. You wrote the Bight of Benin and Biafra, but the whole discussion is based on Oyo empire, Dahomey and others! Retitle the video
They be yeye people na. What do you expects from Yorubas who are known to be tweeting Benin history.
great work
Many many thanks
why is this not taught in schools????,. we owe the descendants of slaves a big apology.
Thanks for that.
Dahomey is present day what?
Benin republic
Fairly correct
Good stuff.
Who crown the oba of lagos...and where oduduwa came from...the yorobas have be deceiving benin and the entire religion of benin empire...pleas go and read back history i am not from Nigeria but I known Little history of benin their artefact can be found in England
Want more of this history bro, remain blessed
Story story story. What is prove.
This is more of speculations, at least about the south east.
Who are the real owner of the bight of Benin answer "mr"
The Edo people are the real Owner of the Bight of Benin. Their name was corrupted from Ubini to Benin by the Portuguese. They were the first to trade with the Europeans. They conquered every region from the current Benin City to as far as Ghana.
I love this.....
Excuse me, which Benin
Is it Benin kingdom in Nigeria or Benin Republic
Nigeria
When he is talking about DAHOMEY he is referring to Republic of Benin...Not Benin Kingdom in Nigeria
They were together
@@catchphrase3008 they were not together
@@catchphrase3008 they weren't together, I checked it on Google, benin Republic was known as dahomey
Your headline no rhyme with your discussion bro
Thanks bro for the imformations Nigeria education is very very poor in history because of biafra war and afreed of biafra to be a nation
@Ant Nam igbo brothers are confuse of them self because Nigeria inform them that we are not brothers how can sombody say I be Delter igbo and at the same time say am not igbo can two women give birth to one child NO also river state and so on just because they lack history
John Sheppard I apologise, but next time say they are igbos with some affinities with Edo ok, and not the other way round
John Sheppard my friend , just read what you have just written, are you not the reason why I used that insulting words before, that the
John Sheppard you are just making fool of yourself by trying to claim what's very impossible and can never be proved even in the animal kingdom, please try another person. My mom came from ubulu Uno and they normally have a festival they celebrates with the ozu Bulu people in Anambra state and history has it that they are from the same parents. Please carry your quota system historic knowledge to your Edo people and leave igbos alone
John Sheppard do you know the meaning of education?, Just Go and find the definition of education First. In as much as I know that Bini kingdom was famous, but it was not as grossly famous as you want to paint it
You are wrong about your Aro history. Site your sources of information.
When all that fight was going on there was nothing like Nigeria .that zoo was found 1914
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Stop this lie an talk about your Yoruba state liar
God will punished you
Bross why this so much hate inside you, if you disagree with his opinion which he is entitle to no need to start calling names, just make your correction if you have superior augment to his comments that is how civilize people should conduct themselves if we think we're one
Well this is not Nigeria issue rather it is a two different countries in west Africa biafra and yoruba so there is nothing like Nigeria, those who said biafra don't exist should know that biafra is already there before the so called Nigeria without meaning
Was there lagos in the 1700s?
The Portuguese gave the name “Lagos”. In 1422, Portuguese were the first to arrive the shores of African to enslave Africans.
was the Oyo empire conquer by the fulani jihadis
Please go and sit down okay, don't come at here and be saying what you don't know
In the 17th century there was no Lagos. It is the binis edo people in today Nigeria that founded Lagos and named it ' Eko ' meaning in Benin language a kind of a small house build for temporary stay for business trading and other things. This build by Benin traders that where trading with the Europeans who first came to Benin kingdom to buy slaves and other antiquities.
So Mr MAN please stop saying what you don't know or refusing to say the truth because of personal and tribal interests.
OBA is not a Yoruba name. Oba is a Benin, edo name. In the 1940s and 50s there was nothing like oba in yoroba land. It is all imitation of Benin. There is no oba like the oba of Benin Edo people of Nigeria.
No wonder the British heard about Benin wealth and antifacts and to fight the Benins and stole them.
Where were the yorubas and the ibos. Use your common sense.
Please it's igbos* not ibos
Thanks for bringing this out. The igbos will never agree to their atrocious actions. They often blame others.
How can you let the white people tell your story deep inside us our story is there we know who we are
Oga you lie bight of Benin was name after Benin kingdom, Benin kingdom comprises of olu of warri, obi of agbor and Oba of Lagos because that was the only organized institutions the others were weakling, eg Oyo,ife and the rest were weaklings that was why the Fulani captured them and even sold them as slaves. Just forget this pride analogy you just gave to burst your ego is the British that rised Yoruba and igbos this two ethnic groups suffer more during slave trade, there is nothing like bight of Biafra we only have bight of bonny which cover from guinea down to Cameron no Nigeria environment is part of bight of Biafra or bonny
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The info concerning bight of Biafra is wrong!!
Pls enlighten us...
very wrong
The info concerning the bight of benin is wrong
Enlighten us then Mchew
Thanks.
Oga you are wrong about the Biafrans history you didn't explain it well at all
All of this Wahala 😂
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COMPLETE FABRICATION!
What are you talking about
@@igbotimehopper64yearsago46 the Igbo's fought against slavery, don't let them deceive you
@@nwankwonwachukwu5277 not all igbos just the kingdom of Nri the Aro made there money from slavery
@@nwankwonwachukwu5277 I really don’t understand why you’re denying historical evidence. Especially when it is not a blanket statement on all Igbo societies
Just that some engaged and slavery and some didn’t.
bight of Bonny please and not BIGHT of Biafra
It is Bight of Biafra clown
Just because it was changed after the civil war doesn’t make it no longer Bight of Biafra.
Typical abandoned property thief
You don't know what you're talking about
D Benin take is Talkin about is nt Nigeria Benin ooo
Is Benin Republic Benin
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Please expanciate, he is referring to the great Benin kingdom. Which other Benin existed before the coming of the European? Today Benin republic adopted the name from Benin city in to edo state in Nigeria. Yoruba people stop misleading your kind. Educated illiterate that is what you guys are. Envious of the Benin history, I guess
The Biggt of Benin refers to the Benin Kingdom in Nigeria. One of the Kings of Benin Kingdom founded Lagos and called it Eko. His Son -Addo was the first Oba of Lagos and the Oba of Benin was the Chief slave master or seller. Republic of Benin changed the names from Dahomey to Benin taking it from the Bight of Benin. Thanks
Your story about Igbo are untrue
He is very correct about the ARO long juju cult
They're from Israelites hahaha lost people
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Igbo is much much older than Jacob/Israel ... Israel came from Igbo not Igbo from Israel
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Keep on laughing you silly clown! You don't know ah damn thing about the Igbo - God - Race!!!!
You are talking completely nonsense