".....According to the best scholarship on this subject, the Awori subgroup of the Yoruba people established typical Yoruba kingdoms in the Lagos coastlands and islands as early as the 12th century. By the 19th century, the island kingdom of Eko was so important in the coastal trade that it became a bone of contention among merchants of various European nations. The British, in order to control most of the trade, used brute force to establish dominance on the Lagos kingdom in 1851, and then signed a treaty of cession with the Lagos king in 1861. Fifty-three years later, in 1914, they made Lagos the capital of their new Protectorate of Nigeria, and many Nigerians, including the Igbo, first began to come to Lagos in the 1920s. What is the foundation, therefore, of the statement that Lagos belonged only to the lagoon until the Igbo came?....."
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:04:47 +0000
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