TOUR BADAGRY

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SLAVE MUSEUMS AND ARCADES

Badagry, with its historic slave trade sites, landscapes, cultural artifacts and relics from the inhuman slave trade evolves to a modern world where the old buildings and exceptional memories are kept for researchers and tourists to unearth the terrible impact of the trade. We therefore help in providing tour guide to assist people get secured trip to and from these sites which is about an hour journey from Lagos mainland.

It will interest you to know that Badagry provides the following independent tourist centres:

Palace of the Akran of Badagry.
The ethnographic museum of the king.
The First Storey Building in Nigeria constructed by the Anglican missionaries.
The cemetery of the early missionaries.
The District Officer's Office and Residence.
Relics of slave chains, items for exchange and cannons of war
The Slave Port established for the shipment of slaves before the l6th century.
The Vlekte slave Market and
The Brazilian Baracoon (Slave Prison) established in 1840.

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Atlantic Slave Trade in Badagry, Nigeria

The ancient city of Badagry was founded around l425 A.D. It was one of five divisions created in Lagos State in l968. Before this time, in the ancient times, people were living along the coast of Gberefu from where Badagry took its existence. Badagry is strategically located by the sea from where commercial activities started for the Aworis and Egun people who are mainly the people who reside in the town of Badagry and in the neighboring Republic du Benin, an half hour drive from Badagry.

Today, Badgry is bordered on the south by the Gulf of Guinea and surrounded by a lake, creeks and islands. The ancient town served mainly the Oyo Empire comprising the Yorubas in the south-western Nigeria.

Badagry served an historical yet important role been a port for slave trade in West Africa. This trade was infamous in Nigeria against that of Ghana (a former British colony), Benin, Togo and Senegal (former French colonies). The slave trade in Badagry became a major source of income for the Europeans.

Badagry participated actively in the early sixteenth century and slaves were transported from West Africa to America through this corridor. History recorded that Badagry exported no fewer than 550,000 slaves from West Africa and neighbouring countries of Benin and Togo as well as other parts of Nigeria to America during American Independence in l787 apart from the slaves that were transported to the Caribbean, Europe and South America.

From "History of the Mobee Family of Badagry and Their Involvement in the Slave Trade" by Olusegun Mobee "Slaves were never captured in Badagry...As a matter of fact, then, slavery was recognized institution all over the world. Slaves were employed by Kings, Chiefs, and wealthy people in their houses as domestic servants. A man's economic and social status were assessed by the number of slaves he possessed. This type of slavery was known as domestic slavery. Usually, many of these slaves were captives of war. But many of the slave owners on learning that European slave merchants were besieging Badagry with goods such as iron bars, cotton, wool, linen, whiskey, gin, metal wares, and assorted wines in exchange for slaves, wasted no time to bring their domestic slaves to Badagry with the hope of exchanging them for the listed items. It was confessed that the prospects of Trans Atlantic Slave Trade fueled into tribal wars in Yorubaland as the kings and slaves who had taken part of the European slave merchants' offer, went all out to wage war on the other towns and villages with the sole aim of getting slaves to be exchanged for wine and guns."

VISIT BADAGRY

Badagry is rich in toursm sites as against the general knowledge of people in Nigeria. This is a part of Lagos that attracts high traffic of foreign tourists on weekly intervals.

What is attracting this volume of explorers remain the historical record on slave trade and the role Badagry played during the slave trade era. The trade though abolished, yet the remains of the relics are kept in museums. These arcades are organised in a way to refesh the memories.

The direct descendants of the slave merchants will welcome you with narratives.

The relics are as fresh as when they were last used in 1878.

The Brasilian Baracoon was established in Badagry in 1840 with forty cells/prison yards where captives were inhumanly kept.

The Slave trade market is an interesting monument delightedly preseved for tourists.

The original slave chains and missile are also there for curiousity sake.

The tombs of the masterminders who merchandised Nigerians for pieces of mirror, umbrella, mug plates, many other unimaginable items were conspicuously preserved to provide the most desired interest tourists are looking out for.

Also present in Badagry is the first story building in Nigeria, the house of late Reverend Ajayi Crowder.

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