Jaja of Opobo Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha; 1821–1891) was a merchant prince and the founder of Opobo city-state in an area that is now part of Nigeria .At the 1884 Berlin Conference, however, the other European powers designated Opobo as British territory.the British arrested him and tried him in Accra , Ghana then took him to London for some time, where he met Queen Victoria & was her guest in Buckingham Palace. After this, he was exiled to Saint Vincent in the West Indies
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