Ayo Akinfe
Do you know that Nigeria is the only country on the world that had three slave shipping ports? We had Calabar, Lagos and Badagry, all if which shipped human cargo to the New World in mega quantities. It is crystal clear that without Nigeria there simply would never have been the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade or the global...
Ayo Akinfe
If we delve into the history of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, it is crystal clear that without Nigeria there simply would have been no global trade in human cargo
By my estimation, about one quarter of all the slaves in the New World came from Nigeria. It is no accident that our shores were called Slave Coast and the...
Ayo Akinfe
Nigeria was founded on the basis of the fact that she could supply Europe with commodities she needed at particular points in time. First of all it was human cargo in the form of slaves and then it later became palm oil once the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was abolished in 1833. I ask myself why we have not...
Ayo Akinfe
Very recently, fossils of a new hominid were found in South Africa. Archaeologists have named it Homo Naledi
Basically, we have now discovered another member of our ape family. Homo Naledi joins Homo Sapien, Homo Erectus, Homo Neanderthalis, Homo Habilis and Homo Heidelbergis as one of the great apes that roamed the...
Ayo Akinfe
What Nigeria is going through today with the evangelical churches is not unique. In Europe, when Christianity became the official religion, that is how the Catholic Church dominated society
The Catholic Church owned huge tracks of land across Europe and the bishop was effectively the landlord commanding the power of...