Jaja of Opobo Ban trade with European firms.1887

[Abraham Madu]

 

HIGHLY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION:
LTBLIGHT!
1. Who is KING JAJA of Opobo?
2. Why was he respected by the BRITISH and later the AMERICAAS?
3. IS HE THE FIRST "BLACK PRESIDENT" IN THE EYES OF THE "FREE" WORLD or the WEST?
4. WAS HE SIGNATORY TO KILL AND DESTROY HIS OWN LAND especially the IGBO's with the NEW "FOOL" TESTAMENT BIBLE?
5.What did this man have to be travelling back and forth all over the world as a BLACK MAN in the DARK AGES?
6: What did this man have to establish his own FREED COLONY in AFRICA in the SLAVE AGES?
7. Was this the BLACK PRESIDENT that gave the EUROPEANS and AMERICAAS the spiritual powers to govern their world and to FOREVER DOMINATE THE BLACK MAN especially the IGBOS with RELIGION unless they CHANGE?
......READ ON.......LtbLIGHT!

Jaja was from Igbo extraction. He was believed to have been born in Amaigbo in the present day Imo state of Nigeria. He was later enslaved during the slave trade era and ended up in Bonny in the Niger Delta area. Although he was a slave, he became a member of the Anna Pepple House. Anna Pepple House was a political cum economic structure where some group of individuals within Bonny established a common understanding towards advancing their common business goals and interest. He was able to work up the ladder in the Anna Pepple House because of his well known and dynamic trading capability.
He later became the head of the House. Under Jaja, the Anna Pepple House became very wealthy. This growing prosperity became a thing of envy from the rivals. To avoid and conflict because of the envy, Jaja pulled out in of the Bonny area in 1869 taking with him more than half of the components of the Anna Pepple House. He found a new coastal settlement named Opobo not too far from Bonny.

The establishment of Opobo settlement and its location gave Jaja the upper hand in the control of palm oil business between the hinter lands of what is known today as Nigeria and the Europeans that came in the Coastal area. Jaja controlled firmed palm oil market of Igbo, Ibibio, Efik etc with is position as a middle man. Within a very short period, Jaja became the most powerful and the richest ruler in the Niger Delta area.
In the early stage, the relationship between Jaja and the British was very cordial. For instance by 1873, the British agreement with Jaja recognized him as a ruler of the area. By 1873-74 Jaja lent his soldiers to the British for expedition against the Asante in the present Ghana region. For this act, Queen of Victorian of England gave Jaja a sword as a gift.

Jaja knew that his influence, power and wealth rested on his continued practice as a middle man between the Europeans and the hinter land. For this reason, he prevented the Europeans from having direct access to the products they needed from the hinterland. This his intention did not go down well with the Europeans especially the British. In 1886 problem erupted between Jaja and the British. This had to do with the British traders attempt to gain access to the hinterland markets. Jaja’s response to this was to banish all trade with the Europeans firms and started shipping palm oil directly to England.

This act annoyed the British. In 1887, Johnson who was the British Acting Consul for West Africa directed Jaja to allow the Europeans trader access to the hinterland. This directive was not adhered to by Jaja. By September of 1887, Johnson brought a warship named HMS Goshawk to Opobo and invited Jaja on board. He gave Jaja the assurance that nothing will happen to him. When he went onboard, he was given two bad choices by Johnson. One was that if he would not allow the Europeans access, he could go back and face immediate bombardment from the British navy. The second was that he should give himself up to be taken into exile. It was very difficult for Jaja but in other to save Opobo and his people, he chooses the exile option. He was first sent to Accra where he was tried and later sent to the West Indies where he died in 1891 on his way to Nigeria.
JAHjah! OF OPOBO~ (dibYAH ndi igbo 1)
1/2 the TRUTH can NEVER be told in your HOLY BIBLE!!!!!
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[Mike Okaka]

Interesting.

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[Thomas]

Very enlightening!

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[Afis Deinde]

"What did this man have to be travelling back and forth all over the world as a BLACK MAN in the DARK AGES?
6: What did this man have to establish his own FREED COLONY in AFRICA in the SLAVE AGES?

7. Was this the BLACK PRESIDENT that gave the EUROPEANS and AMERICAAS the spiritual powers to govern their world and to FOREVER DOMINATE THE BLACK MAN especially the IGBOS with RELIGION unless they CHANGE?"......by Stark Illiterate, Abraham NwereNmadu.

Afis comment: If only you had attended Awo awufu schools.......hehehehehehehehe!

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"Abraham Madu is an illiterate who pretends to be semi literate.".....Ayo Ojutalayo. 

Comment:

"WAO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie." (Apologies Abraham A. Madu - the illiterate who pretends to be semi literate).

 

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

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Afis

“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.” — Dhamapada, verse 81.

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