Where are the boats? 12 million people is a lot. what where they feed? How many people hired to capture people? Why Africans in the states never heard of Atlantic slave trade ? They say we are different and i concur. Why our ancestors never passed down stories of Africa?
@@pheleekseh1391 How many do you want to know? Do you think African history is the only slave trades? You will only know a fraction of it which he knows.
One of the most important things I got from This story is our leaders at that time were selling their people for cheap objects that made them look rich... Something we still suffer today
I think they were gullible and quite foolish because they thought those items were of significant value when they were actually not. Even our own artefacts that were looted were much more valuable. Still today as you have said, we continue to sell each other out. It's quite sad.
Great Video fam! My whole family is from the Deep South of America and they did the Ancestry DNA 🧬 test. Our largest percentage was Nigeria 🇳🇬. I now live in Ghana 🇬🇭, but planning a Lagos Trip soon. Blessed 🙏🏿
@Tony Brown I like you have will to do what i like. It was interesting learning about slavery from another narrative. I thought I’d learn something new.. and i did. I see a slavery exhibition for tourism in near future. I mean after the success of Ghana welcome home! 2019. Why not capitalize off of people ignorance.
As an African American , I thank you for this. My father taught me early in life to always remain connected to our motherland, and to remember that we were people before the slave trade. I only recently learned that my DNA is mostly Nigerian, and the rest is a mixture of all of West Africa. I hope to make it to Nigeria someday.
“We have been betraying ourselves” - tour guide the most profound statement in this video . As a Nigerian who lives in the US I am constantly confronted with the hazards of the transatlantic slave trade . It’s important that we Nigerians begin to own up to the role that our ancestors played in this human atrocity. Thanks Tayo for shining a light on this
You? Why? What stories do you have to tell? I’d love to hear. BLACK AMERICANS WAKE UP!!!THEU YRYING TO BAIT AND SWITCH US. Two different stories. Where in the USA IS YOUR FAMILY? Did you do your DNA test? I’ll wait
I’m glad u can at least admit the true history of this. It’s somewhat taught here n the States but they’re having a whole issue with the Critical Race Theory at the university level
You see the problem with this is 'Nigeria' itself. It is a man made construct which was originally set up to be a company to fund Britain. There are people living in this 'Nigeria' who don't even see themselves as Nigerian. Back in the days of these slave trading atrocities there were some ethnic groups who suffered immense loss of people but they weren't as powerful to fight back and trade their enemies to the Europeans. However, these ethnicities are now they are part of this construct called 'Nigeria' they are now expected to be held accountable for the the ethnicities that participated heavily in people trade. Blame needs to be proportioned accordingly and Nigerians need to at least get the ball rolling by apologising to their fellow Nigerians as well.
@@DionneEguono if you want to go on that premise, than you also have to agree that the Whole of Africa is a man made construct , with our borders drawn up by the Whyte man in Berlin in the 1800’s . The rest of Africa is not complaining about it. As Black people we should work together for the Betterment of ALL Black people. Tribalism has not helped anyone till date. Tribal wars led up to us selling each other for slavery in the past, when are we going to learn in the present that tribalism helps no one. It’s only used as a tool by the politicians, and dissidents to maintain their goal posts.
There's plenty of blame to go around. I don't deny that racism exists. But we shouldn't act like everything revolves around it either. Or use it as an excuse to deny personal responsibility.
it serves as a warning to anyone who points the finger at others for their pain has condemn themselves for the evil existing in the heart of mankind as a whole.
As African Americans we need to face and accept the truth of our ancestors part in the slave trade. It's a bitter, heartbreaking truth in which I believe once we accept it will bring healing to us as a people
Tribes were selling conquered tribes into slavery. Just because they shared a skin color does not mean they share a culture. Europeans have fought each other more years and they share a skin color as well
Slavery has always existed within any civilization and culture. The Romans enslaved all other Europeans, the Dutch, English, French, Germans, Spanish etc etc. The Egyptians and Chinese as empires in Civilization all enslaved from within or outside of their people *The only difference with the Europeans enslaving African was the inhuman way that they treated the Africans by making laws and cooking up scientific lies that the African was the equivalent to a monkey, that the African was unintelligent, thr way the separated families, raped the women, used men as bulls by taking one strong male from plantation to plantation to impregnate the females. There's no precedent in all human history that can match or challenge the inhuman and barbaric ways that the European people and their government subjected to the African.......like the man said in this clip his family used go own slaves...this was common practice all across Africa but the slave was never treated like an animal and it was so easily for the Europeans as the colour of the African people made it impossible for them to escape......you must know that at this time the Irish people were also slaves but because they were white to could fun away yo the next town. The African couldn't and the Irish were treated like human beings
Simple,a lot of people dont really grasp this, or missed this concept from the vid.We are our own worst enemies and something needs to be done about how we reason and think about one another.
No. This needs to be taught in homes by parents. They have taught enough fake history. We have to take control and teach our own youth and stop relying on others to do that. We are the only race of people that rely on outside sources to teach our hostory. Every parent can and should require history to ONLY be taught by them. These videos are excellent sources to get started. I plan to opt my kids out of western history lessons....every time.
It is. No one wants to listen because they believe it's false since it's taught by the white and natives historical evidence. Maybe not this in depth, but it's taught.
I'm proud to finally watch something told by ourselves were we ain't playing the victims but instead taking acknowledging our own doings and taking ownership for them.
I agree too. But I'm thanking the yt man for ending it! Yet Blck males are still carrying on to this day!!! Yes, millions still slaves, bc of you males!
This is one of two videos on RUclips that doesn’t portray the African as a victim Try to find another one Chronic VICTIMHOOD BASTARDIZATION syndrome of a smashed culture WORLDWIDE
I had the difficult experience of visiting Badagry slave market a number of years ago and taking the frightening ‘final trip’ past the ‘spirit attenuation well’ to the Point Of No Return. One of my most troubling and unexpected discoveries was that Seriki Abass, a former slave himself, ultimately became the dominant trader in the region, profiting massively by the manacles of fellow Africans. Slavery is not rooted in skin colour but in wicked human hearts; it’s not a black or a white problem, but a sin problem which, sadly, we have all historically shown ourselves capable of.
“Slavery is not rooted in skin colour but in wicked human hearts; It’s not a black or white problem but a sin problem which sadly we have all historically shown ourselves capable of” WOW! Such a powerful and profound statement! Wonderfully said!
Slavery has always existed within any civilization and culture. The Romans enslaved all other Europeans, the Dutch, English, French, Germans, Spanish etc etc. The Egyptians and Chinese as empires in Civilization all enslaved from within or outside of their people *The only difference with the Europeans enslaving African was the inhuman way that they treated the Africans by making laws and cooking up scientific lies that the African was the equivalent to a monkey, that the African was unintelligent, thr way the separated families, raped the women, used men as bulls by taking one strong male from plantation to plantation to impregnate the females. There's no precedent in all human history that can match or challenge the inhuman and barbaric ways that the European people and their government subjected to the African.......like the man said in this clip his family used go own slaves...this was common practice all across Africa but the slave was never treated like an animal and it was so easily for the Europeans as the colour of the African people made it impossible for them to escape......you must know that at this time the Irish people were also slaves but because they were white to could fun away yo the next town. The African couldn't and the Irish were treated like human beings
@@cushitepeople9165 your whole argument is B.S, claiming Europeans somehow treated their slaves like animals and much worse than other races that enslaved Africans or anyone else for that matter!! This has to be the most ignorant claim I’ve ever heard!! 😂You obviously have a biased animosity/ racist outlook on yt people and it clearly shows. Most believe that white men just jumped off of boats and ran through the African country side with a cast net catching black folk… WRONG!!! 99% of black slaves were captured, retained and sold by other Blk tribes. Furthermore, these same tribes used there captives as slaves long before Europeans ever purchased a slave. These same African tribes treated there slaves in a brutal manner were many died of starvation, infection from chain bindings, beaten to death and slaughtered for no good reason. All slave owners have treated their own slaves poorly. Race has nothing to do with how slaves were treated and to think otherwise is ludicrous!! Do better research and stop with the false claims, posting bs bc it fits your own personal narratives!
I don't know who needs to hear this..As a Nigerian, I fully and wholeheartedly apologise for my ancestors part in slavery whether it be as a seller or bystander. Sending my love to the warriors and survivors of slavery in the Americas (Caribbean, USA, south and central America). You are us, we are family. Ubuntu. One love.
Dna shows me to be 40 percent Nigerian, and 23 percent Congo Western Bantu peoples and several other african nations and North Africa. It warms my heart that you apologized. I accept your blessings and pray that gracious God blesses Nigeria, you and your entire family. Peace be upon you forever.
Now I see why this perspective is so important. It's something I've been thinking about but too scared to bring up. We can only move forward when we come together and stop betraying each other.
Hard to do though realistically speaking, people get jealous envy of other people's stuff. Their woman, their power, their wealth. This world only needs God not us. Get it? This world only needs someone like Jesus, or indian Jesus Buddha, or Muhammad. Although some Muslims took Muhammad teaching astray Muhammad was still a righteous man with a meek heart. Only when we are like our Divine Creator righteous at heart can we truly enjoy life in Earth.
Thank you, brother. I am from USA. I had my DNA and most I have is Nigeria. I love your videos! I want to do to Nigeria one day so my ancestors to say I'm home again. Thank you🥰
Its refreshing to have an actual born Nigerian explore the trading of my ancestors. Thank you for this content :) In no life time is a human life worth a glass bottle or an umbrella!!!
I visited there 3 years ago.I noticed the sea was very angry and people don’t swim in that area. I believe there is a strong connection between the slaves and the sea.
Notice the sea angry? Notice the sea have trends at certain times of the year. Notice the sea act up at certain temps. write down these trends and discuss them with other sea watchers. then maybe youcan master the saes. WOW, that is what the Portuguese did from 1420's to the 1490s.
great to learn more about the slave trade in Nigeria. i know this should be hard for you to make cause omo, if it's me, I will be crying... well done tayo
Greetings Brother hopefully we can reframe the narratives. These were not "slave trades" these criminal enterprises are deliberate attacks on sovereign citizens. High crimes with No statute of limitations! The only way to gain justice and departure from the pain and degrading stigma we must reframe the narratives and as said proper criminal liabilities. There is No statute of limitations. Peace and Blessings Glorify the Most High Continually.
@@TayoAinaFilms the courage you have shown is reflective of what our families exhibited. I suggest you get a copy of The Black Holocaust for beginners. By SE Anderson. I hope to tour Africa with my collection of documents and art someday before I pass away. Thanks again Brother. Glorifying the Most High Continually. Adekunle Aloya
As an African American it brings me so much pain, because there are some Nigerians I have met that still treat African Americans as we are beneath them, not all but a few that I have met
Americans always make fun of africans. Their skin tone, their accent, their hair, etc. everything that actually makes them "black" because they try so hard to dissociate from africans. Be honest! Those nigerians you're talking about are just defending themselves. In Africa, most people who are aware of your existence think you are cool, so stop this!
It's so refreshing hearing from Nigeria's side of story. Well Done Tayo. You beat Western Media to this. Much much respect from SA🇿🇦 Your content never disappoint
I'm still a student in secondary school in Nigeria. I'm just finishing. I really love history and I'm always studying about the slave trade. We went on school trips to the national museum and Badagry and it really hurt to see that such historical monuments aren't maintained properly. This is our history. And it's being neglected. I really hope one day the government sees it as something important
Hello brother, I agree with you. It's so sad. The more you learn about our history you will see things that we did. You will feel all kind of emotions. You will be amazed when you learn. Black People invented so many things. A black woman invented makeup. I just wanted to tell you that.👍
Yes! Now isn't this clearly, about corruption? Price and profits, no wonder why everyone else is against the black's, because the shittism has been stratified against the black's themselves Every since I was a child, it's like spiritually, I could sense and see things deep within my being, and as I grow older, I developed this consciousness, regarding, wrong and right It was obvious that something was really out of place, for example, from a biblical point of view, I was lead to think and believe, that poverty were the norm, personally I could not accept it, so I've always, asking questions, but couldn't get the right answers, so I started to do my own research I started with the bible, that's when I learned that Eygth, was the first civilized on earth, but to me Eygth was out, or rather up in the sky, plus many other, places, only to discover that these places is in Africa, I then went on further, and come to realized, that Africa, and African's, weren't in need, or wants of anything, simply means that everything you could think of was, and is there in Africa, then I wonder, then why, or how is it, a continent, fell victim, to country? There i came to realized, that it couldn't, without insider's for reason, wealth Therefore, religious and economical subordination were stratified, to control the wealth, so there and then, the only way, was, and still is divide and rule Even to this very moment, look at our continent, look at our music, look at the ordinary people, no one can tell me, the the gate of no return, wasn't, and still a major phycological, emotional, spiritual throma upon until this very moment, due to lack of self-esteem, African's at home, and abroad, need Leaders, politicians, in the diaspora, is still our insider's, just like in the begining of Africa trouble from day one, I could go on, and on, however, at this moment, I really need some sleep, I trust my input will be food of thoughts, it's full time to reevaluate ourselves and love each other, especially black people. One love
I wasnt very relaxed watching him recall the history of Nigerians selling my ancestors into slavery. I’m a black American and I cried the entire video.
It is taught in books, they literally wrote it down so future generations could copy it. Check out The Gambia they have books on the slave trade and the Arab slave trade, same as Mali, Ghana etc. Maybe in the west it’s not in your class rooms but they will have books on it. Come on man
I am a descendant of one who was taken from Nigeria and enslaved in the Caribbean. The real horrors of slavery in the Caribbean need be thought in African. So there an understanding of the pain and loss of the descendant of those slaves; and a million times more what our ancestors who endured. Look what my ancestors were traded sold for. That’s always been the hardest part that my ancestors were sold by their own. The cruelty 😞. Thank you very much for this videos. Some of us descendant have been tracing our roots
@@Culture23 And the rest of the world! It is hard to credit the evil in the minds of some human beings that carry out and permit these things to happen! On the other hand there have always been people that have felt compelled to stand up against these things; always a situation of good versus evil in this world! I am a 'white' person now70 years old living in the U.K., and what I refer to as 'black' issues have come to burn within me since I became friends with someone from the Caribbean from about 7 years ago. Slavery unfortunately still continues in this world to this day. I understand one can still openly buy slaves in the markets in some countries of this world; it seems there will always be human beings exploiting other human beings in this world. Brent Collins.
To be honest, growing up and being taught about slavery in Africa, we felt the pain and still feel the pain. The fact that some Western nations are still exploiting African countries' resources both human and mineral shows the evil of slavery. One disappointing fact was that powerful Africans indeed owned weaker fellow Africans as slaves themselves because I remember being told about certain families that of slavery generation. That's what is called the 'Osus' in South Eastern part of Nigeria for example.
Strange as it sounds, many Africans don't really care about their "dark skinned folk" in America. Many black Africans just want to eat and live a jolly life. I really think that black Americans should identify as Americans because there's not really much connection with Africa except for ancestry. I think it should sink in that in Africa, their ancestors were sold for gin, trinkets and the likes by some of our ancestors... some of whom continued slave trade even after it was banned. I as a Nigerian know some families that benefited and were highly involved in the trade. The fight against racism by MLK and other visionaries was a necessary struggle and it's good that there are truly positive results from that. Descendants of black slaves in America should be firstly Americans and should be accorded equal rights. The African connection is really only ancestral and not unnecessary for those that seek closure. But black Americans are not really Africans in a social sense because they don't really understand the social order in Africa. My advise to the black American dreaming of Africa is that they may return to Africa and be part of the system here if they feel so drawn. But I rather advise them to be part of a country that gives them more opportunities to excel in their endeavor rather than fantasize about a dreamy picture of Africa that really doesn't exist.
I’ve been there too, my secondary school took us in 2011. We walked the same journey the slaves did to the “point of no return”. It was very heartbreaking to imagine the actual journey.
Very important and valuable content. I'm from the Caribbean. I have great ....great grand parents on both sides of my family who are from the region that now forms part of Nigeria. A large portion of my ancenstry could traced back to Nigeria. Documenting important events in history such as these, does help us to strengthen our identity and connection to each other.
It’s suppose to be a national monument to remember the lives of the slaves. The Lagos state government needs to do more and turn the place into a tourist attraction because of the future generations.
There’s a such a monument (the Gate of No Return) in Badagry, built by the Lagos government. There’s also been the Black Heritage Festival held every year in Badagry since 1999.
Why would they, they are no different from the slave masters and chiefs who sold slaves to the europeans, they are still selling out Nigerians till today.
Perhaps we should bribe them umbrellas and beer... maybe that'll motivate them. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. This is a pathetic and there's no excuse for this. #JustEmbarrassing!
Wow , Badagry was my very 1st trip to Nigeria. This video is so nostalgic. Tayo brought back all my memories from a trip to Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria. Light and love from South Africa.
Your video content and quality are outstanding. I am an adjunct professor and I often showcase your work during my class. I visited Badgery while in Nigeria and you are correct, this history must be conserved. Thank you for this work.
This history will not be preserved The only infrastructure the whole continent has was built by the WEST All of the infrastructure has not been maintained , not in the slightest This point of no return will be a dust pile, mud hut very soon
I am so Happy and Anger for the making of this video. As a descendant this history, much of the historian’s information was lost from the constant interruptions from the host and much needed closed captions. Thank you for making this video, the more we know of this history the stronger we become as one people.
Chillls I was there 20 years ago for school excursion. I remember almost crying their eyes out, the arch of no return wasn't built then. I think all these history should be preserved, well done Tayo!
Such an enlightening and depressing video. I made a trip to Salvador in Brazil a few years ago after university and I was shocked and pleasantly surprised and proud of the way Brazilians of Nigerian descent had immaculately preserved their Nigerian ancestral culture down the generations. Their ancestors may have been sold as slaves in their corporal bodies to the traders but they couldn’t sell or break their spirit.
@@mikejones-wn1sw I suggest you read, comprehend and enlighten yourself before making inane comments on a public platform. You’re embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.
@@AITrademarket I suggest you admit the truth goofy. It is what it is at point. The books will be open. You all stole Yahs chosen ones and sold them. They will conspire together in a attempt to cut them off from being a nation. Humble yourself. Willingly or unwillingly.
@@shueibdahir these are places not people. You do know this right.. Just like Africa is a place not a people. Afro is a hair style. These places named by the people who conquered these places. What is your real name? Nigeria was name in the 1970-1990s by a white woman. The people who are really from "brazil" that are indigenous to that land have a name and it is not Brazillian or nigerian. Either way you are what your father is
This is very good content educating the African and the Africans in diaspora. This should be in the school syllabus for every African child. Good job Tayo 👏👏👏
THERE ARE NO AFRICANS IN THE BLACK DIASPORA. THE TERM (AFRICAN) AMERICAN WAS CREATED TO CONFUSE THR ISRAELITES/ HEBREWS WHO WERE SOLD INTO SLAVERY BY THE AFRICANS. JUST ANOTHER WAY TO DECEIVE AND HIDE THE DIASPORAS TRUE IDENTITY, AND ADD CONFUSION TO AN AWAKENING THAT WAS FORETOLD THROUGHOUT EVERY SCRIPTURE.
The most powerful statement in this video; "We betrayed ourselves." This is a powerful video! I am most surprised at how little people were traded for, trinkets🥺 I am very happy that the history is being preserved. I really wish more people watched and heard this! America is Soo divided and I believe most of the division is based on lack of knowledge about the true history of slavery. Please keep making these videos. Africa is an amazing and beautiful place. Each country has a colorful history! Thank you!!!!
As an American who desperately wants to travel back to Africa...this brings me to tears. I say returning would be my ancestors hopes fulfilled...my God...💜
This makes me so sad cse I feel like I can feel my ancestors spirit through this video. Per my grandmother stories her ancestors were captured by their own n sold.. makes me sad
Why would anyone want to go to Africa? Why would you feel a connection to the original people that betrayed your ancestors and sold them to the whte man.
I have to say that in the last 10 years I've learned so much about my ancestors/where I come from. Very well put together! I went to the point of no return in Ghana, I cried because I could feel the heaviness in my heart from what I physically saw, it really can not be expressed in words! I truly believe that when our young men and women truly know their history, they can really hold their heads' high. I pray I live to see it Blessings and thanks for sharing the knowledge son!
Thank you so much for making this video, Tayo. More of us need to know this forgotten part of Nigeria’s history and Badagry absolutely needs to be preserved!
Thank you so much for this video Tayo! I am from the African diaspora and recently found that most of my ancestral DNA is Nigerian and one day I hope to visit Nigeria and reconnect with my ancestral home. It is sad to see that the slave trade history is not highlighted and recognized as it should in Nigeria, so your video is a welcomed change and I hope to see more like this one!
Thanks for sharing this. I went to elementary and secondary school in Lagos, Nigeria and didn't learn anything about slavery. Sad, sad, sad. I had to come back to America to learn what I should know in Nigeria. Our education system needs massive improvement.
This broke my heart. I got goosebumps and tears in my eyes as I watched this video. Thank you for putting this video together to educate us. History is very important and we need to know our roots and where we came from.
Your video analyses are quite exception. I met a Kenya girl in the school in London, when she discovered that l am Nigerian, recommended you as her best youtuber.
You make some of the best videos in Africa my man. I had been wondering about these sites and I heard they were neglected in Nigeria. I hope your video lights a fire under the ass of the govt to preserve them better, as it's very important history -- for all humans.
The attenuation well is symbolic to why we must not forget our history. It's also important that we understand the role of the local chiefs and its implication even in present day Nigeria. A light bulb went on in my head watching this video, so I pray that your light continue to brightly shine. Great job Tayo!
The mindset that willingly sold people into torture has been passed down. This is the very reason the African countries, that participated, carry the burden of a perpetual curse until we ALL become one again.
@@backupthings8138On a Mega level if we can only realize Satan is real and hateful ,wants us to commit ,violent and/ or selfish or greedy crimes on each other, to be also doomed to hell with it. On a micro level, it's evil whisper, is to find a petty difference with each other,and use it to justify malice toward each other
I believe it’s Healthier for us All to Heal and forgive one another to move forward. A lot of sins were committed in the past, but pls🙏 let’s not remain there, let’s All learn from it and move forward and ensure the sins of the past does not repeat itself again.
Tayo, This is very educative. Man to man so unjust. A human being for an exchange of an umbrella, according to history this trade lasted for almost three hundred years. The Lagos state government should try and preserve this history. Also in Bayelsa State, we have such a place in Akassa in Brass local Government Area of Bayelsa State, which is facing the Atlantic due to lack of proper information people don't know we have such a place in Bayelsa State Nigeria. Great job Tayo.
As an African American, this information (which is not taught here) is so important to those of us wishing to piece together our stolen history. Thank you!
YES IT IS I LEARN THIS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IT IS EVEN SHOWN IN THE MOVIE ROOTS HOW DO YOU THINK THEY GATHERED THESE PEOPLE AND NOT ONLY BLACK PEOPLE WERE SLAVES IT WAS IRISHMEN CHINESE DUTCH AND SOME BLACK THAT BOUGHT SLAVES
Not taught where? It was definitely taught in my middle, high, and college courses. I'm an African-American - please be specific. SOME of us are quite aware of our history.
How painful is it to realize that without African help slavery in the Americas might never have existed? Even more surprising is all the anger never confronts the modern slave trade practiced in Mauritania, Kenya, Nigeria and Burundi to name just a few today. Slavery, in fact, is as alive and well as any time in history. Maybe your history teachers had an agenda that you were unable to discern.
That's why most African descendants all over the world are living in trauma. We're wish ther African governments would accept their relatives back without having to pay for citizenship. Let us come home freely.
With all this info, what do you think the amount of ancestral curses will be? Unless you cut those chains through Jesus Christ. Not the Jesus Christ from the "Slave Bible" those white suppressors used on the slaves to keep them bounded even in the spiritual realm.
@Terrill Elliott that has nothing to do with we West African descendants in America due to the fact that, the Africans in Northern African territories now known as Egypt and or Israel were sent throughout the Mediterranean...not Turtle Island "The Americas"! We are West Africans
I learnt about the atlantic slave trade way back in junior secondary here in zambia it's so good to see the actual place very interesting... thanks Tayo
I'm Nigerian/African American. It's hurtful when I see some Nigerians make slavery jokes about African Americans or Caribbean people. Nigerians need to understand that slavery is apart of our history too.
My family is from Jamaica and an African guy called me a stuck up and a Slave when I would go on a date with him. It was the "slave" comment that hurt the most coming from an African .
@@suzettewilliams1758 ignorance sister… ignorance. Coming from a Nigerian who lives in the states now. Most Africans don’t know about slave trade and if some do, majority know the white washed history. Sad
I learnt about this a long time ago when our school then "Dayspring Comprehensive College" in Eket, Akwaibom State took us for excursion at "Marina Resort" in Cross-River and on the same day we went to "Cercopan" where we saw different species of monkeys. Keep up with the good work @Tayo Aina
*Salute to Tayo for doing the Lord's work. I'm a descendant of the Brazilians that moved back to Nigeria after the emancipation and this connects dots.*
Another fantastic video Tayo!! Powerful history and perspective. I am African American ( midwest and south) and it is always good to see the truth. Important to preserve the relics. So important to study slavery and the flow. UK, USA, Carribbean, Brazil. All family.
I would like to do this tour with my Nigerian husband. He's in denial about this history of Nigeria. He said they never learned any of this in school. What's the name of the tour/guide?
My dad is black - African/carribean American - Bajan mom and AA dad - Recently found I have mostly Nigerian and Ghanian ancestry through DNA testing. Definitely adding sites like these to my bucket list, it's imperative to know our true history in order to heal as people who are part of the diaspora.
This was a great video to watch. It’s sad but enlightening to know our history as Nigerians. I hope that we can do what is needed to preserve such facilities. It’s important. Well done to you 👏🏽👏🏽
Tayo well done on this brother, I'm from Jamaica living in the United States and Nigerians always ask me if I'm Nigerian. Many times people on the Continent doesn't understand why some diaspora family take this journey. I visited that place 2019 my 1st visit to Nigeria. Thanks for showcasing this on your platform.
People keep saying they sold Thier own people ! 50 miles of up the road were a different set of people different languages ! So just like the French didn't look at the Germans as Thier own people ! And the larger Coastal people ran the slave trade !
I agree that the history of slavery in Africa cannot be forgotten, it is a path back to a point in time, and I believe it should be preserved. Thank you for researching what's left of our history that needs to be preserved and cherished.
Thank you so much for this Tayo... The people that don't learn from history are very likely to repeat it. Please we need more videos like these. 🙏 GOD bless you!!!
Nice video. Note however that there was no place called Nigeria during the Atlantic slave trade . But Various kingdoms and Tribes who fought each other. European took advantage of the rivalry to manipulate and buy off slaves from rival camps to be taken to the western world unknown to the locals .
@@mylifetotaly Really? How? They have money, technology, wealth and they still rule over Africa and they have All the African workers they want, so How Europe is paying?
To simply continue to blame white people it's as if you didn't even watch this video, just read the comments below from the many people telling of ancestors who participated in selling slaves, if you are simply continuing to blame white people then you are missing the points and editing historical facts, watch the video again
Africans sold their own people into slavery. I put the majority blame on those who bought and enslaved them unto perpetuity, a lifetime of slavery for the slave and for his descendants for 400 years in America under the most brutal, heinous, despicable, and cruel system of slavery ever! Generation after generation African descendants endured forced labor on sugar/cotton plantations, deliberate breaking up of families, physical brutality inflicted upon them by slavemaster, rape, and many other abominable acts of cruelty. The American slave system was the most heinous and despicable form of slavery which more than likely the African chieftains never envisioned the vast scope of monstrosities associated with it.
My father took me to this place during my teen years when we visited lagos and this was during the 90s. The place has been re arranged since I can remember. It was such a good learning historic place my dad showed me. I even saw the rusty chains etc...
This was one of the most educational and painful videos I've ever seen. My great grandparents came over to Canada due to the potatoe famine in Ireland, the story goes my great grandfather jumped off the boat and swam with his shoes above his head and made a homestead while waiting for his family to quarantine on a small island called Beaubears island in miramichi. We never endured slavery and I'll never say we can exactly relate but the horrors ancestors suffered needs to be remembered.
It's a proof of human resilience through adversities. The world now is divided into black / white thinking, privileged versus not priviliged, the oppressor versus oppressed. It is good to see also this part of hidden history that is going against the narrative of black lives matters or any political agenda. Also the irish people have suffered a great deal of famine and diaspora, but is there any white lives matters movement set up? The lessons learned need to be that in each person, no matter skin color, there is the potential to do good, to do bad, to be altruistic, to be self serving. Don't be fooled to be divided into different categories, thats a political agenda. Humanity must surpass any division and pursue what's good and pure to do, in our families, communities.
Thank you for making these videos. I've been out of school for a long time and back when I went to school here in America, slavery was glossed over very quickly, they didn't really teach us much more than "Africans were brought over on slave ships and forced to work in the fields after they were bought at the local slave market and they were treated horribly". If I remember correctly we spent maybe 2 hours on the subject before moving on. The part about 40 people being sold for an umbrella made my jaw drop and my heart sink, those poor people...
My first time in Lagos my husband and family took my daughter and me to Badagry. I will never forget. I also met the African slave trader great grand son. It was so surreal words cannot explain the emotions. Great trip. Look forward to visiting the slave ports in Ghana, Senegal and Benin.
Thank you for this video. It now makes sense to me why so many African Americans DNA come from Nigeria. Wow. It's a lot to take in. Many blessings for your fine wotk. I am waiting for my DNA results to come back and I wouldn't be surprised...
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Thank you for the history lesson. We need to know our past as Africans in oder to understand our future...
Thanks Trudy. You are very correct. 👊🏽
Thanks for this Tayo🙏🙏
Where are the boats? 12 million people is a lot. what where they feed? How many people hired to capture people?
Why Africans in the states never heard of Atlantic slave trade ? They say we are different and i concur.
Why our ancestors never passed down stories of Africa?
@@TayoAinaFilms clearly you don't know your history
@@pheleekseh1391 How many do you want to know? Do you think African history is the only slave trades? You will only know a fraction of it which he knows.
One of the most important things I got from This story is our leaders at that time were selling their people for cheap objects that made them look rich... Something we still suffer today
I think they were gullible and quite foolish because they thought those items were of significant value when they were actually not. Even our own artefacts that were looted were much more valuable.
Still today as you have said, we continue to sell each other out. It's quite sad.
Rulers pls
Some things Never change. Sad
History repeats itself. ,,,😭😭😭😭😭
Sounds like the present leadership of Africa
Great Video fam! My whole family is from the Deep South of America and they did the Ancestry DNA 🧬 test. Our largest percentage was Nigeria 🇳🇬. I now live in Ghana 🇬🇭, but planning a Lagos Trip soon. Blessed 🙏🏿
@Zayloc23. Bless man, and you are welcome in Nigeria at any time. I have been following your journey in Ghana. Your house is coming up strong
@@ObaOrisha Peace & Honors fam 🇳🇬 !! Thank you 🙏🏿!
Bless brother. As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end . All children of Africa will unit . Stay bless
you got a new subscriber ,
@@paaglobal Blessed Love iyah
Hits different when these stories are told from an African perspective! We must tell our own stories. Powerful!
You ain’t never lie!
@Tony Brown I like you have will to do what i like.
It was interesting learning about slavery from another narrative.
I thought I’d learn something new.. and i did.
I see a slavery exhibition for tourism in near future.
I mean after the success of Ghana welcome home! 2019.
Why not capitalize off of people ignorance.
It does. We rarely hear it from that perspective.
I’ve never heard it from another perspective or race sha
Met the tour guide last month when I was out there! He and the other guides were 10/10. It was super sad but necessary!
As an African American , I thank you for this. My father taught me early in life to always remain connected to our motherland, and to remember that we were people before the slave trade. I only recently learned that my DNA is mostly Nigerian, and the rest is a mixture of all of West Africa. I hope to make it to Nigeria someday.
We Nigerians love you. Keep serving the Lord Jesus Christ, your citizenship is heaven ❤❤
❤ your comment. My DNA is 47.7% Nigerian. It came from both of my parents. 👍🏾
Very important video i just did. My dna, i am 93% sub subara West African. i wanted to know also. .i love this one video and one Ghana
While I understand the sentiment, I'd suggest you don't bother coming to Nigeria, you will surely not like it here.
@@Sunny-ou1tz love yet you sold us
“We have been betraying ourselves” - tour guide the most profound statement in this video . As a Nigerian who lives in the US I am constantly confronted with the hazards of the transatlantic slave trade . It’s important that we Nigerians begin to own up to the role that our ancestors played in this human atrocity. Thanks Tayo for shining a light on this
You? Why? What stories do you have to tell? I’d love to hear.
BLACK AMERICANS WAKE UP!!!THEU YRYING TO BAIT AND SWITCH US.
Two different stories.
Where in the USA IS YOUR FAMILY?
Did you do your DNA test?
I’ll wait
I’m glad u can at least admit the true history of this. It’s somewhat taught here n the States but they’re having a whole issue with the Critical Race Theory at the university level
You see the problem with this is 'Nigeria' itself. It is a man made construct which was originally set up to be a company to fund Britain. There are people living in this 'Nigeria' who don't even see themselves as Nigerian. Back in the days of these slave trading atrocities there were some ethnic groups who suffered immense loss of people but they weren't as powerful to fight back and trade their enemies to the Europeans. However, these ethnicities are now they are part of this construct called 'Nigeria' they are now expected to be held accountable for the the ethnicities that participated heavily in people trade. Blame needs to be proportioned accordingly and Nigerians need to at least get the ball rolling by apologising to their fellow Nigerians as well.
@@mikkionthebeat7005 i will admit that slavery topics are lucrative for tourism.
@@DionneEguono if you want to go on that premise, than you also have to agree that the Whole of Africa is a man made construct , with our borders drawn up by the Whyte man in Berlin in the 1800’s . The rest of Africa is not complaining about it. As Black people we should work together for the Betterment of ALL Black people. Tribalism has not helped anyone till date. Tribal wars led up to us selling each other for slavery in the past, when are we going to learn in the present that tribalism helps no one. It’s only used as a tool by the politicians, and dissidents to maintain their goal posts.
Tayo is going to win some documentary award very soon.
I really hope he does. Man’s doing a great job
There is no other way to describe it.
“We betrayed ourselves.” That’s deep. As a person born in the diaspora, it’s important but painful to confront this fact.
Sadly, we have not stopped. We are still betraying each other in so many aspects.
@@eyeswideopen6891 Touché
There's plenty of blame to go around.
I don't deny that racism exists. But we shouldn't act like everything revolves around it either. Or use it as an excuse to deny personal responsibility.
@@bbtfan4617 Facts 💯
it serves as a warning to anyone who points the finger at others for their pain has condemn themselves for the evil existing in the heart of mankind as a whole.
As African Americans we need to face and accept the truth of our ancestors part in the slave trade. It's a bitter, heartbreaking truth in which I believe once we accept it will bring healing to us as a people
"Our ancestors"? My Ancestor was on a boat sold by theirs.
Tribes were selling conquered tribes into slavery. Just because they shared a skin color does not mean they share a culture. Europeans have fought each other more years and they share a skin color as well
I agree!!
Slavery has always existed within any civilization and culture. The Romans enslaved all other Europeans, the Dutch, English, French, Germans, Spanish etc etc. The Egyptians and Chinese as empires in Civilization all enslaved from within or outside of their people
*The only difference with the Europeans enslaving African was the inhuman way that they treated the Africans by making laws and cooking up scientific lies that the African was the equivalent to a monkey, that the African was unintelligent, thr way the separated families, raped the women, used men as bulls by taking one strong male from plantation to plantation to impregnate the females.
There's no precedent in all human history that can match or challenge the inhuman and barbaric ways that the European people and their government subjected to the African.......like the man said in this clip his family used go own slaves...this was common practice all across Africa but the slave was never treated like an animal and it was so easily for the Europeans as the colour of the African people made it impossible for them to escape......you must know that at this time the Irish people were also slaves but because they were white to could fun away yo the next town. The African couldn't and the Irish were treated like human beings
This is where the roots of African Americans come from which is Nigeria we were the Igbo then heeboes then Negroes then nigger now nigga
The local chiefs of those days are the political leaders and traditional leaders of today's Nigeria
Simple,a lot of people dont really grasp this, or missed this concept from the vid.We are our own worst enemies and something needs to be done about how we reason and think about one another.
@@Panther- point blank period!!!!
They are all Judas.
Very like the successors
Facts!
This needs to be taught in schools. 🇳🇬🇳🇬
Fr
No. This needs to be taught in homes by parents. They have taught enough fake history. We have to take control and teach our own youth and stop relying on others to do that. We are the only race of people that rely on outside sources to teach our hostory. Every parent can and should require history to ONLY be taught by them. These videos are excellent sources to get started. I plan to opt my kids out of western history lessons....every time.
When I was in primary school in Lagos, in the mid 1980s they taught all of this to us. I’m surprised a lot of millennials do not know of this.
It is. No one wants to listen because they believe it's false since it's taught by the white and natives historical evidence. Maybe not this in depth, but it's taught.
I'm proud to finally watch something told by ourselves were we ain't playing the victims but instead taking acknowledging our own doings and taking ownership for them.
Agreed
I agree too. But I'm thanking the yt man for ending it! Yet Blck males are still carrying on to this day!!! Yes, millions still slaves, bc of you males!
Said by a white guy
This is one of two videos on RUclips that doesn’t portray the African as a victim
Try to find another one
Chronic VICTIMHOOD BASTARDIZATION syndrome of a smashed culture
WORLDWIDE
I had the difficult experience of visiting Badagry slave market a number of years ago and taking the frightening ‘final trip’ past the ‘spirit attenuation well’ to the Point Of No Return. One of my most troubling and unexpected discoveries was that Seriki Abass, a former slave himself, ultimately became the dominant trader in the region, profiting massively by the manacles of fellow Africans. Slavery is not rooted in skin colour but in wicked human hearts; it’s not a black or a white problem, but a sin problem which, sadly, we have all historically shown ourselves capable of.
Absolutely and it can be taught to the most educated society, it's a matter of brainwashing!!!
“Slavery is not rooted in skin colour but in wicked human hearts; It’s not a black or white problem but a sin problem which sadly we have all historically shown ourselves capable of” WOW! Such a powerful and profound statement! Wonderfully said!
Amen 👏
Slavery has always existed within any civilization and culture. The Romans enslaved all other Europeans, the Dutch, English, French, Germans, Spanish etc etc. The Egyptians and Chinese as empires in Civilization all enslaved from within or outside of their people
*The only difference with the Europeans enslaving African was the inhuman way that they treated the Africans by making laws and cooking up scientific lies that the African was the equivalent to a monkey, that the African was unintelligent, thr way the separated families, raped the women, used men as bulls by taking one strong male from plantation to plantation to impregnate the females.
There's no precedent in all human history that can match or challenge the inhuman and barbaric ways that the European people and their government subjected to the African.......like the man said in this clip his family used go own slaves...this was common practice all across Africa but the slave was never treated like an animal and it was so easily for the Europeans as the colour of the African people made it impossible for them to escape......you must know that at this time the Irish people were also slaves but because they were white to could fun away yo the next town. The African couldn't and the Irish were treated like human beings
@@cushitepeople9165 your whole argument is B.S, claiming Europeans somehow treated their slaves like animals and much worse than other races that enslaved Africans or anyone else for that matter!! This has to be the most ignorant claim I’ve ever heard!! 😂You obviously have a biased animosity/ racist outlook on yt people and it clearly shows.
Most believe that white men just jumped off of boats and ran through the African country side with a cast net catching black folk… WRONG!!! 99% of black slaves were captured, retained and sold by other Blk tribes. Furthermore, these same tribes used there captives as slaves long before Europeans ever purchased a slave. These same African tribes treated there slaves in a brutal manner were many died of starvation, infection from chain bindings, beaten to death and slaughtered for no good reason. All slave owners have treated their own slaves poorly. Race has nothing to do with how slaves were treated and to think otherwise is ludicrous!! Do better research and stop with the false claims, posting bs bc it fits your own personal narratives!
I don't know who needs to hear this..As a Nigerian, I fully and wholeheartedly apologise for my ancestors part in slavery whether it be as a seller or bystander. Sending my love to the warriors and survivors of slavery in the Americas (Caribbean, USA, south and central America). You are us, we are family. Ubuntu. One love.
We all come from Afrika... Mother continent of all of us.
Thank you ❤
Thank you
Thank you, ubuntu
Dna shows me to be 40 percent Nigerian, and 23 percent Congo Western Bantu peoples and several other african nations and North Africa. It warms my heart that you apologized. I accept your blessings and pray that gracious God blesses Nigeria, you and your entire family. Peace be upon you forever.
Now I see why this perspective is so important. It's something I've been thinking about but too scared to bring up. We can only move forward when we come together and stop betraying each other.
Hard to do though realistically speaking, people get jealous envy of other people's stuff. Their woman, their power, their wealth. This world only needs God not us. Get it? This world only needs someone like Jesus, or indian Jesus Buddha, or Muhammad. Although some Muslims took Muhammad teaching astray Muhammad was still a righteous man with a meek heart. Only when we are like our Divine Creator righteous at heart can we truly enjoy life in Earth.
Truth!!
Thank you, brother. I am from USA. I had my DNA and most I have is Nigeria. I love your videos! I want to do to Nigeria one day so my ancestors to say I'm home again. Thank you🥰
Its refreshing to have an actual born Nigerian explore the trading of my ancestors. Thank you for this content :) In no life time is a human life worth a glass bottle or an umbrella!!!
NEVER.. there is no price
Truth 💕
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Stalin, Hitler, Saddam, Obama, Castro, etc...
I disagree.
This is not where the Slave trade began, slaves were talked about in the Bible.
I visited there 3 years ago.I noticed the sea was very angry and people don’t swim in that area. I believe there is a strong connection between the slaves and the sea.
True badagry beach has a strong tide .
So sad!
Notice the sea angry? Notice the sea have trends at certain times of the year. Notice the sea act up at certain temps. write down these trends and discuss them with other sea watchers. then maybe youcan master the saes. WOW, that is what the Portuguese did from 1420's to the 1490s.
They’re not slaves….
Many of our people jumped to their death. They would rather die than go with those demons.
great to learn more about the slave trade in Nigeria. i know this should be hard for you to make cause omo, if it's me, I will be crying... well done tayo
It was hard but the story had to be told 😅 . Thanks bro
If you think it's hard imagine if your ancestors had actually been enslaved.
Greetings Brother hopefully we can reframe the narratives. These were not "slave trades" these criminal enterprises are deliberate attacks on sovereign citizens. High crimes with No statute of limitations! The only way to gain justice and departure from the pain and degrading stigma we must reframe the narratives and as said proper criminal liabilities. There is No statute of limitations. Peace and Blessings Glorify the Most High Continually.
@@TayoAinaFilms the courage you have shown is reflective of what our families exhibited. I suggest you get a copy of The Black Holocaust for beginners. By SE Anderson. I hope to tour Africa with my collection of documents and art someday before I pass away. Thanks again Brother. Glorifying the Most High Continually. Adekunle Aloya
I cried watching this
As an African American it brings me so much pain, because there are some Nigerians I have met that still treat African Americans as we are beneath them, not all but a few that I have met
OMG
vice versa, some African Americans also make fun of Africans
they can't just treat you the way you said, tell your own side of the story
Americans always make fun of africans. Their skin tone, their accent, their hair, etc. everything that actually makes them "black" because they try so hard to dissociate from africans. Be honest! Those nigerians you're talking about are just defending themselves. In Africa, most people who are aware of your existence think you are cool, so stop this!
AFRICA IS BROKEN DOWN NOT BY COLOR BUT TRIBES. SO YES BLACK TRIBES SOLD Others BECAUSE WE NOT THE SAME. THE ONES SOLD WERE THE CHOSEN DEUTERONOMY 28
It's so refreshing hearing from Nigeria's side of story. Well Done Tayo. You beat Western Media to this. Much much respect from SA🇿🇦 Your content never disappoint
Western Media? Lmao did you just re label truth?
@@forevergone3637 Nothing trye about what the west or colonizers say lmao
True*
We all know how desperate Western Media is on twisting African history
We can't wait for paid Media. They have lost their integrity
I'm still a student in secondary school in Nigeria. I'm just finishing. I really love history and I'm always studying about the slave trade. We went on school trips to the national museum and Badagry and it really hurt to see that such historical monuments aren't maintained properly. This is our history. And it's being neglected.
I really hope one day the government sees it as something important
Hello brother, I agree with you. It's so sad. The more you learn about our history you will see things that we did. You will feel all kind of emotions. You will be amazed when you learn. Black People invented so many things. A black woman invented makeup. I just wanted to tell you that.👍
Sorry bro, you don't have leaders you only have politicians.
There's a huge difference between politicians and leaders
My mom told me about this slave trade in Nigeria and I didn't believe her😭😭
@@chiblesstheraindowninafric9932 Now you believe
Yes! Now isn't this clearly, about corruption? Price and profits, no wonder why everyone else is against the black's, because the shittism has been stratified against the black's themselves
Every since I was a child, it's like spiritually, I could sense and see things deep within my being, and as I grow older, I developed this consciousness, regarding, wrong and right
It was obvious that something was really out of place, for example, from a biblical point of view, I was lead to think and believe, that poverty were the norm, personally I could not accept it, so I've always, asking questions, but couldn't get the right answers, so I started to do my own research
I started with the bible, that's when I learned that Eygth, was the first civilized on earth, but to me Eygth was out, or rather up in the sky, plus many other, places, only to discover that these places is in Africa, I then went on further, and come to realized, that Africa, and African's, weren't in need, or wants of anything, simply means that everything you could think of was, and is there in Africa, then I wonder, then why, or how is it, a continent, fell victim, to country? There i came to realized, that it couldn't, without insider's for reason, wealth
Therefore, religious and economical subordination were stratified, to control the wealth, so there and then, the only way, was, and still is divide and rule
Even to this very moment, look at our continent, look at our music, look at the ordinary people, no one can tell me, the the gate of no return, wasn't, and still a major phycological, emotional, spiritual throma upon until this very moment, due to lack of self-esteem, African's at home, and abroad, need Leaders, politicians, in the diaspora, is still our insider's, just like in the begining of Africa trouble from day one, I could go on, and on, however, at this moment, I really need some sleep, I trust my input will be food of thoughts, it's full time to reevaluate ourselves and love each other, especially black people. One love
Tayo's video is so relaxing to watch, who else agrees with me?!
I agree... @Sam Kwak you don't have to be mean...
@Sam Kwak I believe she meant the cinematography! I agree she used the wrong choice of words here
Well said, great soul!
I concore, absolutely!
I wasnt very relaxed watching him recall the history of Nigerians selling my ancestors into slavery. I’m a black American and I cried the entire video.
This breaks my heart. My ancestors faced this exact same plight, they just ended up in Mississippi and Louisiana. Much love from California. ✊🏾❤
French Took A Lot Of Senegambia Sierra Leone Liberia Guinea Slaves Out There Also They Took People From Benin Togo Burkina Faso Too Alabama Too....
Africa's history is sure not in books ... You wanna know the truth, get on the field ... Big ups for putting this together Tayo ... You're a Gee
Keep
Telling urrself that
@@abdulsegs okay
@@TheBetslipMovie all this things the man said here I have read them in history books, find the right one bro
It is taught in books, they literally wrote it down so future generations could copy it. Check out The Gambia they have books on the slave trade and the Arab slave trade, same as Mali, Ghana etc. Maybe in the west it’s not in your class rooms but they will have books on it. Come on man
ehr.... do both. Read books and go to the field too.
I am a descendant of one who was taken from Nigeria and enslaved in the Caribbean. The real horrors of slavery in the Caribbean need be thought in African. So there an understanding of the pain and loss of the descendant of those slaves; and a million times more what our ancestors who endured. Look what my ancestors were traded sold for. That’s always been the hardest part that my ancestors were sold by their own. The cruelty 😞. Thank you very much for this videos. Some of us descendant have been tracing our roots
It also need to be taught in Caribbean too
@@Culture23 And the rest of the world! It is hard to credit the evil in the minds of some human beings that carry out and permit these things to happen! On the other hand there have always been people that have felt compelled to stand up against these things; always a situation of good versus evil in this world! I am a 'white' person now70 years old living in the U.K., and what I refer to as 'black' issues have come to burn within me since I became friends with someone from the Caribbean from about 7 years ago. Slavery unfortunately still continues in this world to this day. I understand one can still openly buy slaves in the markets in some countries of this world; it seems there will always be human beings exploiting other human beings in this world. Brent Collins.
To be honest, growing up and being taught about slavery in Africa, we felt the pain and still feel the pain. The fact that some Western nations are still exploiting African countries' resources both human and mineral shows the evil of slavery. One disappointing fact was that powerful Africans indeed owned weaker fellow Africans as slaves themselves because I remember being told about certain families that of slavery generation. That's what is called the 'Osus' in South Eastern part of Nigeria for example.
Strange as it sounds, many Africans don't really care about their "dark skinned folk" in America. Many black Africans just want to eat and live a jolly life. I really think that black Americans should identify as Americans because there's not really much connection with Africa except for ancestry. I think it should sink in that in Africa, their ancestors were sold for gin, trinkets and the likes by some of our ancestors... some of whom continued slave trade even after it was banned. I as a Nigerian know some families that benefited and were highly involved in the trade.
The fight against racism by MLK and other visionaries was a necessary struggle and it's good that there are truly positive results from that. Descendants of black slaves in America should be firstly Americans and should be accorded equal rights.
The African connection is really only ancestral and not unnecessary for those that seek closure. But black Americans are not really Africans in a social sense because they don't really understand the social order in Africa.
My advise to the black American dreaming of Africa is that they may return to Africa and be part of the system here if they feel so drawn. But I rather advise them to be part of a country that gives them more opportunities to excel in their endeavor rather than fantasize about a dreamy picture of Africa that really doesn't exist.
Yep this part need to be taught for real, as a jamaican slavery is taught in school but not the betrayal, but i guess even teachers didnt know either
Omg! 1 umbrella for 40 human beings! This gave me goosebumps 😭 . Thanks@Tayo for putting up this great piece of information.
I'm angry about it. Vanity. Destruction of blood lines. Why?
The lives were worth way more than what they're traded for 😔
Tayo, thank you 😢😢. My heart broke while watching this. Thank you for doing this for us.
I’ve been there too, my secondary school took us in 2011. We walked the same journey the slaves did to the “point of no return”. It was very heartbreaking to imagine the actual journey.
Wish it is mandatory for all school curriculum in Nigeria to visit that place
Me too in 2010. This was my first excursion
My school went there in 2017 too and the first storey building in Nigeria too.
Very important and valuable content. I'm from the Caribbean. I have great ....great grand parents on both sides of my family who are from the region that now forms part of Nigeria. A large portion of my ancenstry could traced back to Nigeria. Documenting important events in history such as these, does help us to strengthen our identity and connection to each other.
Ase
Which country of the Caribbean?
What's with the pic
The Caribbean is a political region of The Americas.
Ancestry region is determined through DNA testing.
It’s suppose to be a national monument to remember the lives of the slaves. The Lagos state government needs to do more and turn the place into a tourist attraction because of the future generations.
There’s a such a monument (the Gate of No Return) in Badagry, built by the Lagos government. There’s also been the Black Heritage Festival held every year in Badagry since 1999.
Why would they, they are no different from the slave masters and chiefs who sold slaves to the europeans, they are still selling out Nigerians till today.
Perhaps we should bribe them umbrellas and beer... maybe that'll motivate them. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. This is a pathetic and there's no excuse for this. #JustEmbarrassing!
thanks for the video. I actually went to Badagary with my husband,( he's Nigerian) , I am from the Caribbean, It was sad moment.
Love from Cameroon! I never waste my time When I watch your videos! thanks you Tayo!🌻
*waste
Wow , Badagry was my very 1st trip to Nigeria. This video is so nostalgic. Tayo brought back all my memories from a trip to Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria.
Light and love from South Africa.
Your video content and quality are outstanding. I am an adjunct professor and I often showcase your work during my class. I visited Badgery while in Nigeria and you are correct, this history must be conserved. Thank you for this work.
This history will not be preserved
The only infrastructure the whole continent has was built by the WEST
All of the infrastructure has not been maintained , not in the slightest
This point of no return will be a dust pile, mud hut very soon
I am so Happy and Anger for the making of this video. As a descendant this history, much of the historian’s information was lost from the constant interruptions from the host and much needed closed captions. Thank you for making this video, the more we know of this history the stronger we become as one people.
Chillls I was there 20 years ago for school excursion. I remember almost crying their eyes out, the arch of no return wasn't built then. I think all these history should be preserved, well done Tayo!
Imagine what they went through, the young ones to the elderly people 😭
The same way statues in America should be preserved and not torn down.
Such an enlightening and depressing video. I made a trip to Salvador in Brazil a few years ago after university and I was shocked and pleasantly surprised and proud of the way Brazilians of Nigerian descent had immaculately preserved their Nigerian ancestral culture down the generations. Their ancestors may have been sold as slaves in their corporal bodies to the traders but they couldn’t sell or break their spirit.
Those were not Nigerians. Did you hear them say they sold nigerians?
@@mikejones-wn1sw I suggest you read, comprehend and enlighten yourself before making inane comments on a public platform. You’re embarrassing yourself with your ignorance.
@@AITrademarket I suggest you admit the truth goofy. It is what it is at point. The books will be open. You all stole Yahs chosen ones and sold them. They will conspire together in a attempt to cut them off from being a nation. Humble yourself. Willingly or unwillingly.
@@mikejones-wn1sw a lot of brazilians have nigerian ancestry mixed with iberian.
@@shueibdahir these are places not people. You do know this right.. Just like Africa is a place not a people. Afro is a hair style. These places named by the people who conquered these places. What is your real name? Nigeria was name in the 1970-1990s by a white woman. The people who are really from "brazil" that are indigenous to that land have a name and it is not Brazillian or nigerian. Either way you are what your father is
Please do a part-2 of this series from Calabar. There they have a better reserved and organised museum
I agree with you
So true Calabar sites are well preserved and presented
Honestly!! The museum in Calabar is more detailed.
What’s the name?
@@carrolbusa3165 name of?
Thanks for Posting this brother. This will be one of my stops when I go to Nigeria.
Tayoainafilms will always deliver 🔥
Tayo.... You're doing a very wonderful work 👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you ! We need to tell our stories!
_They know who we are. But it seems we don't know who we are._ Powerful statement.
We are the biblical Israelites
The tour guide is so articulate, he knows this thing and great work Tayo you doing a great work
This is the most educative video that every young Nigerian should watch. Kudos Tayo
This is very good content educating the African and the Africans in diaspora.
This should be in the school syllabus for every African child.
Good job Tayo 👏👏👏
This should be in the school syllabus for "every" child.
THERE ARE NO AFRICANS IN THE BLACK DIASPORA. THE TERM (AFRICAN) AMERICAN WAS CREATED TO CONFUSE THR ISRAELITES/ HEBREWS WHO WERE SOLD INTO SLAVERY BY THE AFRICANS. JUST ANOTHER WAY TO DECEIVE AND HIDE THE DIASPORAS TRUE IDENTITY, AND ADD CONFUSION TO AN AWAKENING THAT WAS FORETOLD THROUGHOUT EVERY SCRIPTURE.
The most powerful statement in this video; "We betrayed ourselves."
This is a powerful video! I am most surprised at how little people were traded for, trinkets🥺
I am very happy that the history is being preserved. I really wish more people watched and heard this!
America is Soo divided and I believe most of the division is based on lack of knowledge about the true history of slavery. Please keep making these videos. Africa is an amazing and beautiful place. Each country has a colorful history! Thank you!!!!
As an American who desperately wants to travel back to Africa...this brings me to tears. I say returning would be my ancestors hopes fulfilled...my God...💜
We will be happy to welcome you back to our great land
This makes me so sad cse I feel like I can feel my ancestors spirit through this video. Per my grandmother stories her ancestors were captured by their own n sold.. makes me sad
@@maxemeka2080 🤣🤣🤣 “Great land” you must have never been to Africa. Place is a hot mess of a dump.
Why would anyone want to go to Africa? Why would you feel a connection to the original people that betrayed your ancestors and sold them to the whte man.
nothing any good, is back there for you
This is a great eye opening message to Nigeria and Africa at large. God bless you Tayo
I have to say that in the last 10 years I've learned so much about my ancestors/where I come from. Very well put together! I went to the point of no return in Ghana, I cried because I could feel the heaviness in my heart from what I physically saw, it really can not be expressed in words! I truly believe that when our young men and women truly know their history, they can really hold their heads' high. I pray I live to see it Blessings and thanks for sharing the knowledge son!
Hold our heads up high??? Are you serious? This is shameful !
Perhaps she means slave descendants ( like myself) need a sense of pride for coming from ancestors who survived the atrocities …
Great video bro! This is highly educational 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thank you so much for making this video, Tayo. More of us need to know this forgotten part of Nigeria’s history and Badagry absolutely needs to be preserved!
Thank you so much for this video Tayo! I am from the African diaspora and recently found that most of my ancestral DNA is Nigerian and one day I hope to visit Nigeria and reconnect with my ancestral home. It is sad to see that the slave trade history is not highlighted and recognized as it should in Nigeria, so your video is a welcomed change and I hope to see more like this one!
We will b wellcome u wit our open hart sister
Welcome home sis🇳🇬🇳🇬❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for sharing this. I went to elementary and secondary school in Lagos, Nigeria and didn't learn anything about slavery. Sad, sad, sad. I had to come back to America to learn what I should know in Nigeria. Our education system needs massive improvement.
This broke my heart. I got goosebumps and tears in my eyes as I watched this video. Thank you for putting this video together to educate us. History is very important and we need to know our roots and where we came from.
Enjoyed this video Tayo, great history lesson. Love from the Caribbean 🇹🇹
Share it to your friends and loved ones around
You are beautiful I live in DC..holla at me
Emotional and speechless. Thanks for this video.
This should be a museum
Your video analyses are quite exception. I met a Kenya girl in the school in London, when she discovered that l am Nigerian, recommended you as her best youtuber.
You make some of the best videos in Africa my man. I had been wondering about these sites and I heard they were neglected in Nigeria. I hope your video lights a fire under the ass of the govt to preserve them better, as it's very important history -- for all humans.
Hey sabbatical, good to see you here. been watching your videos from Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda Kenya and Rwanda Come and visit us in Ghana 🇬🇭
@@africanayasmin6210 I 1000% need to go to Ghana, lemme go find a Twi textbook real quick
Dude you're an ambassador keep trucking.
Well put, great soul
I love your channel
You've done well Tayo, this documentary needs to be kept safe for our upcoming generation 🙋
The way you explore Nigeria is so beautiful to watch. I love how you keep showcasing our history and culture 😩🙏🏽😘😘
Thank you very much brother...keep up the good work...🇧🇸
As a student of politics and history, I learned something completely new today. Thank you, Tayo for this video.
The attenuation well is symbolic to why we must not forget our history. It's also important that we understand the role of the local chiefs and its implication even in present day Nigeria.
A light bulb went on in my head watching this video, so I pray that your light continue to brightly shine. Great job Tayo!
That's why we have to love & nurture each other, we've been through the most hell on this planet.
The mindset that willingly sold people into torture has been passed down. This is the very reason the African countries, that participated, carry the burden of a perpetual curse until we ALL become one again.
@@LynetCEshun we can't be "one again" if we were never one
We just need to figure out a way to work with each other
@@backupthings8138On a Mega level if we can only realize Satan is real and hateful ,wants us to commit ,violent and/ or selfish or greedy crimes on each other, to be also doomed to hell with it.
On a micro level, it's evil whisper, is to find a petty difference with each other,and use it to justify malice toward each other
I believe it’s Healthier for us All to Heal and forgive one another to move forward. A lot of sins were committed in the past, but pls🙏 let’s not remain there, let’s All learn from it and move forward and ensure the sins of the past does not repeat itself again.
Tayo, This is very educative. Man to man so unjust. A human being for an exchange of an umbrella, according to history this trade lasted for almost three hundred years.
The Lagos state government should try and preserve this history. Also in Bayelsa State, we have such a place in Akassa in Brass local Government Area of Bayelsa State, which is facing the Atlantic due to lack of proper information people don't know we have such a place in Bayelsa State Nigeria. Great job Tayo.
400 years and not 300 years!! From 1400s to the early 1800s
As an African American, this information (which is not taught here) is so important to those of us wishing to piece together our stolen history. Thank you!
It's not ours...well not most of us.
YES IT IS I LEARN THIS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IT IS EVEN SHOWN IN THE MOVIE ROOTS HOW DO YOU THINK THEY GATHERED THESE PEOPLE AND NOT ONLY BLACK PEOPLE WERE SLAVES IT WAS IRISHMEN CHINESE DUTCH AND SOME BLACK THAT BOUGHT SLAVES
Not taught where? It was definitely taught in my middle, high, and college courses. I'm an African-American - please be specific. SOME of us are quite aware of our history.
How painful is it to realize that without African help slavery in the Americas might never have existed? Even more surprising is all the anger never confronts the modern slave trade practiced in Mauritania, Kenya, Nigeria and Burundi to name just a few today. Slavery, in fact, is as alive and well as any time in history. Maybe your history teachers had an agenda that you were unable to discern.
Many African American Know About This History.
This kind of content can get you traumatised broooo
After filming Goree Island I promised myself never again...
I can only IMAGINE!! Seriously traumatizing!!💯
That's why most African descendants all over the world are living in trauma. We're wish ther African governments would accept their relatives back without having to pay for citizenship. Let us come home freely.
With all this info, what do you think the amount of ancestral curses will be? Unless you cut those chains through Jesus Christ. Not the Jesus Christ from the "Slave Bible" those white suppressors used on the slaves to keep them bounded even in the spiritual realm.
@Terrill Elliott that has nothing to do with we West African descendants in America due to the fact that, the Africans in Northern African territories now known as Egypt and or Israel were sent throughout the Mediterranean...not Turtle Island "The Americas"! We are West Africans
But if he don't traumatize us. We wont learn.
Each time I watch any slave video I feel so emotional
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I learnt about the atlantic slave trade way back in junior secondary here in zambia it's so good to see the actual place very interesting... thanks Tayo
I want to say, that which is covered in this video, is important beyond measure. Thank you for your work
I'm Nigerian/African American. It's hurtful when I see some Nigerians make slavery jokes about African Americans or Caribbean people. Nigerians need to understand that slavery is apart of our history too.
You are telling the true about thanks
My family is from Jamaica and an African guy called me a stuck up and a Slave when I would go on a date with him. It was the "slave" comment that hurt the most coming from an African .
@@suzettewilliams1758 ignorance sister… ignorance. Coming from a Nigerian who lives in the states now. Most Africans don’t know about slave trade and if some do, majority know the white washed history. Sad
Africa had to pay for what they did and are still paying
@@cbx360 lol wow
We in the Caribbean identify with this alot Tayo. Much appreciation and great content.
Welldone👏👏👏👏
Keep Shedding Light!
I learnt about this a long time ago when our school then "Dayspring Comprehensive College" in Eket, Akwaibom State took us for excursion at "Marina Resort" in Cross-River and on the same day we went to "Cercopan" where we saw different species of monkeys. Keep up with the good work @Tayo Aina
*Salute to Tayo for doing the Lord's work. I'm a descendant of the Brazilians that moved back to Nigeria after the emancipation and this connects dots.*
@Celia Yasmin Yes I have relatives with Portuguese last names and both my late Grandmoms names are foreign. One Portuguese the other English.
You're not a descendant of the Brazilians, you are a descendant of Nigerians that returned to Nigeria after spending time in Brazil.
@@Divinatonio Facts!!!!!!
Tayo! Most Africans do not revisit our role in the slave trade, thanks for this video
Another fantastic video Tayo!! Powerful history and perspective. I am African American ( midwest and south) and it is always good to see the truth. Important to preserve the relics. So important to study slavery and the flow. UK, USA, Carribbean, Brazil. All family.
I would like to do this tour with my Nigerian husband. He's in denial about this history of Nigeria. He said they never learned any of this in school.
What's the name of the tour/guide?
My dad is black - African/carribean American - Bajan mom and AA dad - Recently found I have mostly Nigerian and Ghanian ancestry through DNA testing. Definitely adding sites like these to my bucket list, it's imperative to know our true history in order to heal as people who are part of the diaspora.
nothing of any good is worth you learning about there
Hello can I talk to you
Nigerians been selling fellow Africans.
Well done good content. We also need deeper history when we left Kemet- Egypt and dispersed into West Africa.
This was a great video to watch. It’s sad but enlightening to know our history as Nigerians. I hope that we can do what is needed to preserve such facilities. It’s important. Well done to you 👏🏽👏🏽
I've been to this slave museum and I can completely relate with everything in this video. What a nice video.
Tayo well done on this brother, I'm from Jamaica living in the United States and Nigerians always ask me if I'm Nigerian. Many times people on the Continent doesn't understand why some diaspora family take this journey. I visited that place 2019 my 1st visit to Nigeria. Thanks for showcasing this on your platform.
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People keep saying they sold Thier own people ! 50 miles of up the road were a different set of people different languages ! So just like the French didn't look at the Germans as Thier own people ! And the larger Coastal people ran the slave trade !
Thank you for this content! Our history here and America is connected never be forgotten! ❤️
Soo true❤️❤️❤️
Great history lesson. More of this sprinkled in with your regular content please.
I agree that the history of slavery in Africa cannot be forgotten, it is a path back to a point in time, and I believe it should be preserved. Thank you for researching what's left of our history that needs to be preserved and cherished.
This is a great topic for you to pursue and continue to share with us my brotha. I appreciate. Thank you
Thank you so much for this Tayo... The people that don't learn from history are very likely to repeat it.
Please we need more videos like these. 🙏
GOD bless you!!!
Nice video. Note however that there was no place called Nigeria during the Atlantic slave trade . But Various kingdoms and Tribes who fought each other. European took advantage of the rivalry to manipulate and buy off slaves from rival camps to be taken to the western world unknown to the locals .
Facts well said 👏 💯 👌
Europe is paying now
@@mylifetotaly Really? How? They have money, technology, wealth and they still rule over Africa and they have All the African workers they want, so How Europe is paying?
To simply continue to blame white people it's as if you didn't even watch this video, just read the comments below from the many people telling of ancestors who participated in selling slaves, if you are simply continuing to blame white people then you are missing the points and editing historical facts, watch the video again
Africans sold their own people into slavery. I put the majority blame on those who bought and enslaved them unto perpetuity, a lifetime of slavery for the slave and for his descendants for 400 years in America under the most brutal, heinous, despicable, and cruel system of slavery ever! Generation after generation African descendants endured forced labor on sugar/cotton plantations, deliberate breaking up of families, physical brutality inflicted upon them by slavemaster, rape, and many other abominable acts of cruelty. The American slave system was the most heinous and despicable form of slavery which more than likely the African chieftains never envisioned the vast scope of monstrosities associated with it.
“We did this to ourselves.” End quote. We trace our ancestry to Nigeria. What an eye opening video.
This is the BEST history lesson I've gotten even more than that of my school days (grad 2007)
My father took me to this place during my teen years when we visited lagos and this was during the 90s. The place has been re arranged since I can remember. It was such a good learning historic place my dad showed me. I even saw the rusty chains etc...
This was one of the most educational and painful videos I've ever seen. My great grandparents came over to Canada due to the potatoe famine in Ireland, the story goes my great grandfather jumped off the boat and swam with his shoes above his head and made a homestead while waiting for his family to quarantine on a small island called Beaubears island in miramichi. We never endured slavery and I'll never say we can exactly relate but the horrors ancestors suffered needs to be remembered.
Wow....good to know your history
It's a proof of human resilience through adversities. The world now is divided into black / white thinking, privileged versus not priviliged, the oppressor versus oppressed.
It is good to see also this part of hidden history that is going against the narrative of black lives matters or any political agenda. Also the irish people have suffered a great deal of famine and diaspora, but is there any white lives matters movement set up?
The lessons learned need to be that in each person, no matter skin color, there is the potential to do good, to do bad, to be altruistic, to be self serving.
Don't be fooled to be divided into different categories, thats a political agenda. Humanity must surpass any division and pursue what's good and pure to do, in our families, communities.
Thank you for making these videos. I've been out of school for a long time and back when I went to school here in America, slavery was glossed over very quickly, they didn't really teach us much more than "Africans were brought over on slave ships and forced to work in the fields after they were bought at the local slave market and they were treated horribly".
If I remember correctly we spent maybe 2 hours on the subject before moving on.
The part about 40 people being sold for an umbrella made my jaw drop and my heart sink, those poor people...
I was waiting for the part where you will find out we traded ourselves first and I wasn't disappointed
My first time in Lagos my husband and family took my daughter and me to Badagry. I will never forget. I also met the African slave trader great grand son. It was so surreal words cannot explain the emotions. Great trip. Look forward to visiting the slave ports in Ghana, Senegal and Benin.
Thank you so much Mr Tayo for this inspiring history through your video. I really learned a lot. I watched the video with tears dripping down my eyes😭
So my question would be who were the Rulers of Nigera at the time of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade???
Akintoye, Kosoko, dosunmu were the rulers then in Yoruba land.
Thank you for this video. It now makes sense to me why so many African Americans DNA come from Nigeria. Wow. It's a lot to take in. Many blessings for your fine wotk. I am waiting for my DNA results to come back and I wouldn't be surprised...