Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Recommendations for texts on banishment in West Africa

Thank you for suggesting the UK public records unit as well as the Nigerian National Archives. A cousin of my mother's searched the UK archives decades ago for clues about what happened to Okonjo, my great-grandfather. That search was fruitless, so I may end up having to adapt an amalgamation of different banished people's stories.

Lola

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On Feb 10, 2023, at 7:57 AM, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:



What is there to enjoy about

this very sad situation?

Some anti-colonial activists were

sent to Barbados. If I am not

mistaken that includes

 Jaja of Opobo.

I suggest that the Public Records

Unit in The UK and the Nigerian 

National Archives may have 

leads.A graduate student could

 be encouraged to pursue the 

research.Many would  have been 

killed without documentation 

of their demise, so there is no

guarantee that the information 

would be found but it is

worth a try.

Toyin, I did not see an attachment.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History/African Studies, CCSU
africahistory.net; vimeo.com/ gloriaemeagwali
Recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Research
Excellence Award, Univ. of Texas at Austin;
2019 Distinguished Africanist Award
New York African Studies Association

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There is a list of exiled kings and chiefs…as in Jaja of Opobo

And a list of internally relocated, as in the Alake

Enjoy!

 

From: 'Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Friday, February 10, 2023 at 3:08 AM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Recommendations for texts on banishment in West Africa

Hi all,

 

I'm working on my second book, which fictionalizes a bit of family lore.  My great-grandfather was discovered with a cache of guns and banished by the British in 1897 – no one from the family ever heard from him again and no one knows where he died, was buried, etc.

I'm obviously not a historian, so I wonder if you have any suggestions for texts that I should read that examine the use of banishment to suppress suspected anti-colonial dissent.  I know, for example, that the Asantehene was banished to the Seychelles and eventually returned to Ghana but don't know how more minor figures who were banished during the colonial period were treated.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

 

Lola

 

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