Badagry Slave Museum and Black History Museum, Lagos State, Nigeria
4.5 (38 reviews) Friday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent More than 3 hours Ranking #2 in Badagry Speciality Museums
My own version of 12 years a slave.
BRIEF HISTORY OF BADAGRY Badagry was founded around 1425 A.D. before its existence, people have been living along the Coast of Gberefu, which later gave birth to Badagry. Fishing, Farming, salt making from ocean water were the main occupation of the people. The natives believe that Badagry was founded by a famous farmer called ‘Agbedeh’ who lived at Gberefu Sea Beach and maintained a farm land across the lagoon in the present Badagry. ‘Greme’ means farm in Ogu language and the people who visited Agbede’s farm, when asked, would say they went to ‘Agbedegreme’ meaning agbede’s farm. The word was later coined to Agbadarigi by the Yoruba settlers and was later corrupted to Badagry by the European slave merchants before the end of the senteenth century. The people of Badagry are heterogenous. They are mainly Ogu of Whydah, Whra, Wheme and Ga/Ewe clans who migrated from the former Dahomey and Awori-Yoruba who are descendants of Oduduwa of Western Nigeria. The traditions of
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5Evans A 5:00 PM Mar 9, 2017
Wonderful experience, a journey to history
well, i must say that the town badagry is really filled with history, but this slave sites exceptionally give me the chills and almost brings me to tears, its really a nice place to be especially if you are history buff and fascinated about the slave trade. The people of badagry are also welcoming and i find them very friendly and willing to assist you with the slightest information; its really a place to visit.
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5sisi v 5:00 PM Jun 6, 2018
My experience at first storey building in nigeria
I had the opportunity to visit the first story building in Nigeria, the building is currently 173 years old. The first educational system in Nigeria started in Badagry, where the first primary school was established by the Wesleyan missionary in 1843 and was named nursey of the infant which later became St Thomas Anglican Nursery and Primary School. Education in Nigeria was started by 40 men and those 40 men spent 12 years in primary school. Nursery of infant school was founded by Rev Golmer in 1845, later on, the first secondary school in Badagry was founded in 1955. Samuel Ajayi Crowther was the first African bishop that translated the holy bible from English to Yoruba. Samuel was his baptismal name, Ajayi was his native name and Crowther was his master name.he was captured has a slave in Osun at the age of 12. when the missionary came to Africa they came with seven laborers three carpenters and four bricklayers. I also saw the Agia Tree where the first Christmas and Christianity took place, the tree fell a year before our independence which was 1959. Mr. Claudus Phillips was the first teacher in Nigeria. the missionaries came to Nigeria with three goals which are, religious knowledge, Agricultural Science, and education, and those three things are been practice up to date. It was a wonderful experience so far, I got to learn about the history of Christianity in Nigeria, how it started, who wrote the bible and also the the first teacher in Nigeria.
