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She returned, deprived by the Atlantic en-slave trade

It's Ella's first time on a Keke (Tuk Tuk). It's also her first time in Nigeria. She's Afro-British from England. All she desired was to experience the day to day lifestyle of the people of Nigeria as she feel a connection with the country. She wispered to me "Anago, i want my children to marry Nigerians". She yearn to be reconnected physically and spiritually. I also took her to Badagry where she walked on the Slave route among other things and also experienced Anago Osho's "Badagry Beyond the Chain Project". 


Her walks on the street of Lagos, numerous Culture shocks, her waving at people, cleaning her sweaty face with hankerchief, trying her bargaining prowness with the market women at Balogun Market Lagos Island, measuring the waist beads she brought, eating boli and epa (roasted plantain and groundnut), her mentoring conversation with young Nigerian girls, traditional prayers from the elders at the ancient Kosoko palace, learning Yoruba language, eating kolanut, bitter kola, alligator pepper, and gulping it down with a shot of aromatic gin etc. means the world to her. She was deprived of the true history and knowledge of Africa through the trans Atlantic en-slave trade but she returned. 

As we walked on the ever busy Ereko street market, i was concerned about the humidity as the sun was really up, especially on a typical Lagos saturday afternoon. She looked at me and Said, I am melanin, blacks don't crack. I smiled as i appreciate the creator of all life and the ancestors for the opportunity of making me an ambassador, one of the bridges between Africa and Africa Diaspora.



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