Descendants of Foremost Slave Merchant Living in Cells He Built for Slaves
Descendants of Foremost Slave Merchant Living in Cells He Built for Slaves by Newton-Ray Ukwuoma LAGOS, Nigeria (THIS REPORT WAS NOMINATED AND WON THE 2018 TOURISM REPORTER OF THE YEAR, NIGERIAN MEDIA MERIT AWARD (NMMA) ) MARINA Road, the route to the Badagry Slave Heritage Museum, was extremely bleached. Most of it was covered in sea sand and a timid spread of coal tar. On the one side of the road lies the Gberefu Beach, a markedly long stretch of sandy coast, historic for harbouring one of Nigeria’s largest ancient slave ports. It was here that slaves from Nigeria and Benin Republic were crammed into schooners then off to the horrific bowel of slave ships en route to the Americas.On the other side of the road, however, were littered dwarf buildings, surviving monuments and relics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade. Among them, Seriki Faremi Williams Abass Slave Museum and the Gberefu Beach stood out. It was a Thursday, the day of the Badagry Diaspora Festival. The enti