SERIKI WILLIAMS ABASS SLAVE MUSEUM, OLD SLAVE PORT, MARINA, BADAGRY, LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA By ANAGO JAMES AKEEM OSHO
Establishment The Seriki Faremi Williams Abass Slave Museum (Brazilian Baracoon) was established in 2003, in the family compound of Chief Seriki Faremi Williams Abass in Badagry, Lagos. The Seriki Williams Abass Compound was first made a monument in 1940 during the colonial administration that made Chief Seriki Williams Abass the Senior Chief Ilaro Division (SCID) in 1913. This made him the paramount Chief of the division which includes Badagry. As soon as Nigeria gained her independence in 1960, the monument became abandoned until 2003 when the government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (the former president of Nigeria) made the heritage a national monument through the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Onikan, Lagos, Nigeria. Cultural and historical features The museum of Seriki Abass is a slave history museum and the compound was a former Baracoon. It w...