On Feb 10, 2023, at 11:31 AM, 'Emeagwali, Gloria (History)' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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From: 'Omolola Ogunyemi' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Recommendations for texts on banishment in West Africa--EXTERNAL EMAIL: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click any links or open any attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe.
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--
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 aboutthis very sad situation?
Some anti-colonial activists weresent to Barbados. If I am notmistaken that includesJaja of Opobo.I suggest that the Public RecordsUnit in The UK and the NigerianNational Archives may haveleads.A graduate student couldbe encouraged to pursue theresearch.Many would have beenkilled without documentationof their demise, so there is noguarantee that the informationwould be found but it isworth 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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Sent: Friday, February 10, 2023 4:14 AM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Recommendations for texts on banishment in West Africa--EXTERNAL EMAIL: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click any links or open any attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe.
--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
To: Usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Recommendations for texts on banishment in West AfricaHi 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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