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RE: Ancient Street Photography : Oke - Ona Abeokuta

in #photography • 7 years ago

Nice! Nice! Seeing the architecture of the old African building make me proud of our fathers. It shows that they were brilliant people and not the "cave man" the world suppose them to be. This is our heritage. This is our culture. This is our tradition. This is our origin. And this is who we are.
Nice adventure boss!

More fun facts: A word can mean several things in Yoruba language though it has the same spelling but different pronunciation and different meanings.

Lol... It's difficult teaching my friend the language. She keeps saying the same thing differently but they all mean different things.

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    Thank you very much fam ... the history of the Egba people is ridulouly insane. It will marvel you.

    Let me drop an extract from wikipedia here

    The Egba United Government (EUG) was a political entity in the late 19th century in what is today Nigeria. The Government was formally established by the Lagos Colony Governor - Mccallum at a meeting organised in 1898, by William Alfred Allen an Egba man who was the Colonial Government Agent in Abeokuta. William Alfred Allen was appointed the First Secretary to the Government by the Colonial government while the Egba rulers were given government portfolios.

    The EUG was recognized by the British at the end of the Yoruba Civil Wars in 1893, thus making it one of Africa's legally existing nation-states (at least according to modern international law) to survive the scramble. Its independence did not last for long, however, as the nature of the government, which placed constraints on the power of the king, was antithetical to Frederick Lugard's vision of "indirect rule": he therefore had it dissolved under the pretext of the king and his chiefs "inviting" the British monarch to serve as their protector in the aftermath of a period of internal civil strife in the early part of the 20th century.

    That said.. our fore fathers were smart and highly organised.

    I am proud to be associated with the Egba.

    Thanks for dropping by buddy

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