Greg Nwoko Historic Blog
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
The Ghana, Accra Earthquake of June 22, 1939
FESTUS OKOTIE-EBOH (1919-1966)
Festus Okotie-Eboh (1919-1966) was a Nigerian politician and former minister for finance during the administration of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Born to Urhobo parents from Uwherun, he adopted the Itsekiri as his tribe after marriage into an Itsekiri family. Before his change of ethnicity he was Chief Festus Samuel Edah. He attended the Baptist School, Sapele for secondary education. He later joined the British Bata Company, as a clerk. After working at the British Bata Company for a while, he became a deputy manager in Sapele, during this time he was also member of the Warri Ports Advisory Committee and the Sapele Township Advisory Board. In due time, he traveled to Czechoslovakia and studied Business Administration. On returning to the country, he quit his prior position and started a business, selling timber, rubber and owning a few schools. In 1951, after some influence from Azikiwe, he contested for a seat and was elected into the western region House of Assembly. In 1954, he was elected treasurer of the N.C.N.C. and in 1957, was made Minister of Finance.
Okotie-Eboh was assassinated along with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa in the January 15, 1966 military coup which terminated the Nigerian First Republic, and thus civilian rule.
Okotie-Eboh was assassinated along with Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa in the January 15, 1966 military coup which terminated the Nigerian First Republic, and thus civilian rule.
LARGEST SALE OF HUMAN BEINGS IN AMERICA
In March of 1857, the largest sale of human beings in the history in the United States took place at a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia. During the two days of the sale, raindrops fell unceasingly on the racetrack. It was almost as though the heavens were crying. So, too, fell teardrops from many of the 460 men, women, and children who were auctioned off during the two days. The sale would thereafter be known as "the weeping time."
The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John. But Pierce had squandered away his portion of the inheritance, losing a rumored $700,000; now he was deeply in debt. Management of Pierce Butler's estate was transferred to trustees. The trustees sold off Butler's once-grand, now-neglected Philadelphia mansion for $30,000. Other Butler properties were sold as well. But it was not enough to satisfy creditors, much less to ensure that Butler would continue to live in luxury. So the trustees turned to the Georgia plantations and their "moveable" property -- their slaves.
At the time, the overall holdings of the Butler family included 900 slaves. These would be divided into two groups of 450. Half would go to the estate of John, who had since died. These slaves would remain on the plantations. The fate of the other 450 -- Pierce's half -- was more precarious. About 20 would continue to live on Butler property. The remainder, some 429 men, women, and children, were boarded onto railway cars and steamboats and brought to the Broeck racetrack, where each would be sold to the highest bidder.
There were naturally differing viewpoints regarding the auction, Pierce Butler, and the large fortune he would gain after paying his debts. Philadelphia socialite Sidney George Fisher noted in his diary, "It is highly honorable to [Butler] that he did all he could to prevent the sale, offering to make any personal sacrifice to avoid it." Of the auction, Fisher wrote:
It is a dreadful affair, however, selling these hereditary Negroes. . . . Families will not be separated, that is to say, husbands and wives, parents and young children. But brothers and sisters of mature age, parents and children of mature age, all other relations and the ties of home and long association will be violently severed. It will be a hard thing for Butler to witness and it is a monstrous thing to do. Yet it is done every day in the South. It is one among the many frightful consequences of slavery and contradicts our civilization, our Christianity, or Republicanism. Can such a system endure, is it consistent with humanity, with moral progress? These are difficult questions, and still more difficult is it to say, what can be done? The Negroes of the South must be slaves or the South will be Africanized. Slavery is better for them and for us than such a result.
Mortimer Thomson, a popular newsman of the day known affectionately as "Doesticks," wrote a lengthy, uncomplimentary article about the auction for the New York Tribune entitled "What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation." He reported how the slaves, eager to impress potential masters who they perceived as kind, would sometimes cheerfully respond to buyers "pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up and down to detect any signs of lameness, making them stoop and bend in different ways that they might be certain there was no concealed rupture or wound. . . ." And Thomson commiserated with the unfortunate slaves after the sale, stating, "On the faces of all was an expression of heavy grief; some appeared to be resigned to the hard stroke of Fortune that had torn them from their homes, and were sadly trying to make the best of it; some sat brooding moodily over their sorrows, their chins resting on their hands, their eyes staring vacantly, and their bodies rocking to and fro, with a restless motion that was never stilled. . . ."
The two-day sale netted $303,850. The highest price paid for one family -- a mother and her five grown children -- was $6,180. The highest price for one individual was $1,750. The lowest price for any one slave was $250.
Soon after the last slave was sold, the rain stopped. Champagne bottles popped in celebration. And Pierce Butler, once again wealthy, made a trip to southern Europe before returning home to Philadephia.
The owner of the slaves, Pierce Butler, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier, along with his brother John. But Pierce had squandered away his portion of the inheritance, losing a rumored $700,000; now he was deeply in debt. Management of Pierce Butler's estate was transferred to trustees. The trustees sold off Butler's once-grand, now-neglected Philadelphia mansion for $30,000. Other Butler properties were sold as well. But it was not enough to satisfy creditors, much less to ensure that Butler would continue to live in luxury. So the trustees turned to the Georgia plantations and their "moveable" property -- their slaves.
At the time, the overall holdings of the Butler family included 900 slaves. These would be divided into two groups of 450. Half would go to the estate of John, who had since died. These slaves would remain on the plantations. The fate of the other 450 -- Pierce's half -- was more precarious. About 20 would continue to live on Butler property. The remainder, some 429 men, women, and children, were boarded onto railway cars and steamboats and brought to the Broeck racetrack, where each would be sold to the highest bidder.
There were naturally differing viewpoints regarding the auction, Pierce Butler, and the large fortune he would gain after paying his debts. Philadelphia socialite Sidney George Fisher noted in his diary, "It is highly honorable to [Butler] that he did all he could to prevent the sale, offering to make any personal sacrifice to avoid it." Of the auction, Fisher wrote:
It is a dreadful affair, however, selling these hereditary Negroes. . . . Families will not be separated, that is to say, husbands and wives, parents and young children. But brothers and sisters of mature age, parents and children of mature age, all other relations and the ties of home and long association will be violently severed. It will be a hard thing for Butler to witness and it is a monstrous thing to do. Yet it is done every day in the South. It is one among the many frightful consequences of slavery and contradicts our civilization, our Christianity, or Republicanism. Can such a system endure, is it consistent with humanity, with moral progress? These are difficult questions, and still more difficult is it to say, what can be done? The Negroes of the South must be slaves or the South will be Africanized. Slavery is better for them and for us than such a result.
Mortimer Thomson, a popular newsman of the day known affectionately as "Doesticks," wrote a lengthy, uncomplimentary article about the auction for the New York Tribune entitled "What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation." He reported how the slaves, eager to impress potential masters who they perceived as kind, would sometimes cheerfully respond to buyers "pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up and down to detect any signs of lameness, making them stoop and bend in different ways that they might be certain there was no concealed rupture or wound. . . ." And Thomson commiserated with the unfortunate slaves after the sale, stating, "On the faces of all was an expression of heavy grief; some appeared to be resigned to the hard stroke of Fortune that had torn them from their homes, and were sadly trying to make the best of it; some sat brooding moodily over their sorrows, their chins resting on their hands, their eyes staring vacantly, and their bodies rocking to and fro, with a restless motion that was never stilled. . . ."
The two-day sale netted $303,850. The highest price paid for one family -- a mother and her five grown children -- was $6,180. The highest price for one individual was $1,750. The lowest price for any one slave was $250.
Soon after the last slave was sold, the rain stopped. Champagne bottles popped in celebration. And Pierce Butler, once again wealthy, made a trip to southern Europe before returning home to Philadephia.
Colonel Ibrahim Taiwo
Colonel Ibrahim Taiwo was a Military Governor of Kwara State from July 1975 to February 1976 during the military regime of General Murtala Mohammed.He assisted in establishment of the University of Ilorin, which was founded by decree August, 1975.
Taiwo, then a Captain with the Lagos Garrison in Yaba, was one of the many officers (including 2nd Lieutenant Sani Abacha, Lieutenant Muhammadu Buhari, Lieutenant Ibrahim Bako, Lt Colonel Murtala Muhammed, and Major Theophilus Danjuma among others), who staged what became known as the Nigerian Counter-Coup of 1966 because of grievances they felt towards the administration of General Aguiyi Ironsi's government which quelled the January 15, 1966 coup.
Taiwo played a central role in the coup that ousted Yakubu Gowon and brought Murtala Mohammed to power, under cover of his Supply and Transport duties in the army, working closely with Lt. Col. Muhammadu Buhari.
Colonel Ibrahim Taiwo was murdered on 13 February 1976 during a failed coup in which the then Head of State Gen. Murtala Mohammed was also killed. General Olusegun Obasanjo was later appointed as Head of State keeping the rest of Gen. Murtala Mohammed's Chain of Command in place.
Taiwo, then a Captain with the Lagos Garrison in Yaba, was one of the many officers (including 2nd Lieutenant Sani Abacha, Lieutenant Muhammadu Buhari, Lieutenant Ibrahim Bako, Lt Colonel Murtala Muhammed, and Major Theophilus Danjuma among others), who staged what became known as the Nigerian Counter-Coup of 1966 because of grievances they felt towards the administration of General Aguiyi Ironsi's government which quelled the January 15, 1966 coup.
Taiwo played a central role in the coup that ousted Yakubu Gowon and brought Murtala Mohammed to power, under cover of his Supply and Transport duties in the army, working closely with Lt. Col. Muhammadu Buhari.
Colonel Ibrahim Taiwo was murdered on 13 February 1976 during a failed coup in which the then Head of State Gen. Murtala Mohammed was also killed. General Olusegun Obasanjo was later appointed as Head of State keeping the rest of Gen. Murtala Mohammed's Chain of Command in place.
Gurara Waterfall is popular tourist destination in Niger State, Nigeria
NIGER: Gurara Waterfall is popular tourist destination in Niger State. Located in north-central geopolitical zone of Nigeria, Niger State was created out of the defunct North Western Nigeria in 1976 and it is divided into twenty five local government areas.
Source: Kenneth Norton
Source: Kenneth Norton
OFADA RICE
This is a local rice and it’s not prepared like any other common rice you know, Ofada rice is one of the most popular traditional rice in the eastern part of Nigeria. The food is also quite popular in other African countries and especially in West Africa. Ofada rice is a Nigerian food that is quite the recipe of choice because of its great taste and high nutritional value.
January 1981 state visit of Nigerian President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari to Cameroon
Source: JULIE SUMMESQUASH
1960 English made Nigerian independence fabric
1960 English made Nigerian independence fabric. Blue color recalls the blue field of the colonial flag, with the Ibo inspired star, which was the symbol of the British West African colonies. Must have been after September 1959, a features the bicolor Nigerian standard, unveiled then.
Source: Tommy Miles
Source: Tommy Miles
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Yoni Netaniahu March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976)
Yoni Netaniahu March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976), was the assault commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit Sayeret Matkal. He was the only Israeli soldier killed in action during Operation Entebbe in Uganda. He was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service for his conduct in the Yom Kippur War. His younger brother, Benjamin Netanyahu, is the current Prime Minister of Israel.
BERLIN WALL 1961
A West Berlin police officer stands in front of the concrete wall dividing East and West Berlin at Bernauer Strasse as East Berlin workers add blocks to increase the height of the East German barrier Oct. 7, 1961
Queen Victoria – Monarch of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (reign: 1837 – 1901)
Queen Victoria – Monarch of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (reign: 1837 – 1901): January 13, 1886 – Queen Victoria, monarch of The United Kingdom, issued letters patent that made Lagos into a separate colony – the Colony of Lagos. Prior to establishment of the Lagos Colony, Lagos was a settlement that had been part of the Gold Coast colony (present day Ghana)
Nuba tribe East Africa
Nuba tribe East Africa ~ Nuba Warrior Women of Kau, also known as the South East Nuba. Nuba mountains, Sudan ~ Photo taken by Leni Riefenstahl in 1975.
Door Of No Return, Slave Castle, Cape Coast, Ghana
Door Of No Return, Slave Castle, Cape Coast, Ghana. Recently a DOOR OF RETURN has been added. This signifies the return of the slaves descendents to Ghana to acknowledge the history of their ancestors and each year Ghana celebrates Emancipation Day which welcomes the people from the Diaspora back to their homeland.
Osun Sacred Grove on the outskirts of Osogbo, Western Nigeria.
Osun Sacred Grove on the outskirts of Osogbo, is one of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. The abode of the goddess of fertility Osun, the landscape of the grove & its river is dotted with sanctuaries & shrines, sculptures & art works in honour of Osun & other deities. The sacred grove which is now seen as a symbol of identity is probably the last in Yoruba culture. It testifies to the once widespread practice of establishing sacred groves outside all settlements.
Queen Amina of Zaria 1588-1589
Queen Amina of Zaria 1588-1589 The elder daughter of Bakwa Turunku, who founded the Zazzau Kingdom in 1536, Queen Amina came to power between 1588 and 1589 A. D. Unlike her younger sister, Zariya (from whom the city of Zaria derives its name), Amina is generally remembered for her fierce military exploits.
Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi of Nigeria
Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi of Nigeria
Son of Tabansi of Igboezunu-Aguleri and Ejikwevi of Nteje; one of five children. Though his parents were non-Christian, they sent the boy to live with and be educated by a Christian uncle. He was baptised on 7 January 1912, and given the name Michael. Studied at Onitsha and Aguleri. Accidentally blinded in his left eye while playing with schoolmates. Taught at Holy Trinity School, Onitsha in 1920. Headmaster of Saint Joseph’s School, Aguleri in 1924. Entered Saint Paul’s Seminary at Igbarium in 1925. Ordained on 19 December 1937 in the archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria. From 1937 to 1950 he served as parish priest in Nnewi, then Dunukofia, Akpu/Ajilla, and finally Aguleri, travelling on foot for hours on end to minister to his widely-scattered parishioners. One of his notable ministries was his work with women planning to marry. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy in 1950. Travelling to England, he became an oblate at the monastery of Mount Saint Bernard. He took the name Brother Cyprian, and lived the rest of his life as a Trappist monk at the monastery.
Born: September 1903 in Igboezum, Aguleri, Nigeria as Iwemmaduegbunam
Died: 20 January 1964 at the Royal Infirmary, Leicester, England
buried in the cemetery of Saint Bernard’s monastery
re-interred in the priest‘s cemetery, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Onitsha, Nigeria on 17 October 1986
Venerated: 11 July 1995 by Pope John Paul II
Beatified: 22 March 1998 by Pope John Paul II at Oba, Nigeria
Son of Tabansi of Igboezunu-Aguleri and Ejikwevi of Nteje; one of five children. Though his parents were non-Christian, they sent the boy to live with and be educated by a Christian uncle. He was baptised on 7 January 1912, and given the name Michael. Studied at Onitsha and Aguleri. Accidentally blinded in his left eye while playing with schoolmates. Taught at Holy Trinity School, Onitsha in 1920. Headmaster of Saint Joseph’s School, Aguleri in 1924. Entered Saint Paul’s Seminary at Igbarium in 1925. Ordained on 19 December 1937 in the archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria. From 1937 to 1950 he served as parish priest in Nnewi, then Dunukofia, Akpu/Ajilla, and finally Aguleri, travelling on foot for hours on end to minister to his widely-scattered parishioners. One of his notable ministries was his work with women planning to marry. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy in 1950. Travelling to England, he became an oblate at the monastery of Mount Saint Bernard. He took the name Brother Cyprian, and lived the rest of his life as a Trappist monk at the monastery.
Born: September 1903 in Igboezum, Aguleri, Nigeria as Iwemmaduegbunam
Died: 20 January 1964 at the Royal Infirmary, Leicester, England
buried in the cemetery of Saint Bernard’s monastery
re-interred in the priest‘s cemetery, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Onitsha, Nigeria on 17 October 1986
Venerated: 11 July 1995 by Pope John Paul II
Beatified: 22 March 1998 by Pope John Paul II at Oba, Nigeria
Monday, 19 January 2015
Elizabeth Odilile Ofili (MD, MPH, FACC)
Elizabeth Odilile Ofili (MD, MPH, FACC) is the first female president of the Association of Black Cardiologists. She is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Clinical Research Centre at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also a professor of medicine and Chief of Cardiology at MSM.
Early Life and Career
Elizabeth Ofili was born in 1956. After completing medical school at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State, she moved to the United States in 1982 and began her studies in public health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her Master of Public Health degree in 1983. She completed her internal medicine residency at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, staying on to conduct a research fellowship. Dr Ofili was then appointed a cardiology fellow at Washington University Medical Centre in St Louis, Missouri, where she later served as an adjunct assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology. Board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases, Dr Ofili moved to MSM in 1994 as Associate Professor of Medicine and chief of the cardiology section. While she was practicing at MSM, she observed the high risk of heart diseases among African-Americans and seized the opportunity to address this issue. In 1999, she became a professor at MSM.
Awards and Grants
Dr Ofili has received numerous federal and private grants for studies on cardiac functioning and heart diseases in African-Americans. She also successfully sought and received extensive funding for the development and expansion of MSM’s current research infrastructure. She has also conducted research for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Space Medicine and Life Sciences Research Center. Her NASA studies focus on vascular responses in salt-sensitive and salt-resistant individuals, and on the effects of microgravity on the vascular system.
Dr Ofili is widely acknowledged for her expertise in the field of echocardiography (using sound waves to study the heart and how it functions). She received the Young Investigator Research Award from the American Society of Echocardiography and Mallinckrodt Cardiology in 1993 for her echo studies of myocardial blood flow. In 2000 she became the first woman to serve as president of the Association of Black Cardiologists.
In 1997 she was cited by Heart and Soul magazine as one of the US's top twenty-five black female doctors and was also recognised as one of America's leading physicians by Black Enterprise magazine. She has fifty awards to her credit, including the National Institutes of Health's 1999 Centre of Clinical Research Excellence Award, the Nanette K. Wenger Award for Health Policy in 2001, the Dr Daniel Savage Scientific Award from the Association of Black Cardiologists, and Physician of the Year in 2001 by the US Congressional Health Advisory Board.
Dr Ofili served on the Board of Trustees of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and the Pfizer Women's Health Initiative. She has trained over fifty post-doctoral fellows and faculty, and over thirty undergraduate students and high school seniors.
The Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved the warfarin study of which she is the National Principal Investigator. It is the first large-scale randomised clinical trial to evaluate gene identification ability to predict patient response and improve safety when dosing warfarin, the world's leading anti-blood clotting drug.
She serves on the Board of Directors of Georgia BIO (a Life Sciences company) and on the Cardiovascular Board of the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr Ofili has delivered over four hundred scientific presentations and published over one hundred scientific papers on hypertension, dyslipidemia, heart failure and coronary artery disease appearing in publications such as the Journal of American Medication Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation , and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology .
Personal Life
She is married to Dr Chamberlain Obialo, Chief of Nephrology at Morehouse School of Medicine. The couple have four children.
Sources
The above was compiled using the following sources:
Nigerian Doctors
European Commission website
Changing the Face of Medicine
Healthygrades.com
BOOKSHOP HOUSE, LAGOS, NIGERIA
Bookshop House was built in 1973 by G. Cappa and designed by architects Godwin and Hopwood
with special sun-screening and windows to reduce the heat load on the
air-conditioning. it is still one of the few buildings in Nigeria to
have a facade correctly designed to exclude direct sunlight between 9am
and 5pm with a consequent astonishing 75% saving in air-conditioning
loading on the office floors.
Herbert Macaulay was a civil engineer and one of Nigeria’s pioneer Nationalists. He was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi-Crowther, who translated the Bible into the Yoruba language and is now buried at Christ Church Cathedral.
Herbert Macaulay was a civil engineer and one of Nigeria’s pioneer Nationalists. He was the grandson of Bishop Samuel Ajayi-Crowther, who translated the Bible into the Yoruba language and is now buried at Christ Church Cathedral.
Robert Chesebrough
Robert Chesebrough was down an oil well when he discovered a gooey substance known by workers as ‘rod wax.’ Chesebrough noticed how the workers would use the goo to heal cuts and burns. The entrepreneurial-minded chemist took a sample home for experimentation. Soon he managed to extract a usable petroleum jelly and in 1872 he patented the process before setting up business. By the late 1880s Chesebrough was selling Vaseline to Americans at the rate of one jar per minute.
NAVY SEAL WAR DOG: CAIRO.
When U.S. President Barack Obama went to Fort Campbell, Kentucky,for a highly publicized but very private meeting with the commando team that killed Osama bin Laden, only one of the 81 members of the super-secret SEAL DevGru unit was identified by name: Cairo, the war dog. Cairo, like most canine members of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs, is a Belgian Malinois.
Source: Stephan Talley
Source: Stephan Talley
Victor Ehikhamenor
Victor Ehikhamenor was born in Udomi-Uwessan, Edo State, Nigeria. He is an award winning visual artist, writer and photographer. He lives in Nigeria and the US. He draws influences from traditonal African motifs and religious cosmology. He has held numerous solo art exhibitions. His poetry collection, Sordid Rituals was published in 2002
Source: victorehi.com
Source: victorehi.com
Thomas Adeoye Lambo (March 29, 1923 – March 13, 2004)
Thomas Adeoye Lambo (March 29, 1923 – March 13, 2004) was a Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist. He is credited as the first western trained psychiatrist in Nigeria and Africa. Between 1971 and 1988, he worked at the World Health Organization, becoming the agency's deputy director general.
Lambo was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He attended the famous Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta from 1935 to 1940. He then proceeded to the University of Birmingham, where he studied medicine. To further his studies and become specialized, in 1952, he enrolled at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Adeoye Lambo in due time became famous for his work in ethno-psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.
In 1954, after studying and working as a surgeon in Britain, Dr Lambo returned to Nigeria where he was soon made the specialist in charge at the newly built Aro psychiatric hospital, Abeokuta. By then, Nigeria was undergoing a transition towards political independence which had hastened a culture of innovation and change instead of retardation. Prior to the independence movement, the Federal Government had tried to replicate the European system of creating asylums in the cities for lunatics and mentally ill individuals who were becoming a social nuisance in the streets of many urban areas. The need to put the social anomalous individuals under control, sometimes care and confinement was initiated and a few asylums including one at Yaba were built. However, the institutionalization of mental health was viewed with suspicion by many Nigerians and many still depended on native medicines and herbalists for care. Adeoye Lambo sensing a ground for development, used the opportunity of an independent regional government to start his own out-patient treatment services, the Aro village, pioneering the use of modern curative techniques with traditional religion and native medicines. Adeoye, while at Aro, sought the help of farmers near the asylum to take some of the patients as laborers, while they simultaneously undergo medical treatment, the patients will also pay for any extra services such as housing. He traveled around the country and brought in a few traditional healers from different parts of Nigeria as healers. His style helped relieve public mistrust of mental health hospitals and brought to public discourse the care and treatment of mentally ill citizens. He is credited as providing a platform for re-integrating mentally ill patients into a normal setting and environment and shedding a little bit of the stigma associated with mentally ill individuals.
Source: Wikipedia.
Lambo was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He attended the famous Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta from 1935 to 1940. He then proceeded to the University of Birmingham, where he studied medicine. To further his studies and become specialized, in 1952, he enrolled at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Adeoye Lambo in due time became famous for his work in ethno-psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.
In 1954, after studying and working as a surgeon in Britain, Dr Lambo returned to Nigeria where he was soon made the specialist in charge at the newly built Aro psychiatric hospital, Abeokuta. By then, Nigeria was undergoing a transition towards political independence which had hastened a culture of innovation and change instead of retardation. Prior to the independence movement, the Federal Government had tried to replicate the European system of creating asylums in the cities for lunatics and mentally ill individuals who were becoming a social nuisance in the streets of many urban areas. The need to put the social anomalous individuals under control, sometimes care and confinement was initiated and a few asylums including one at Yaba were built. However, the institutionalization of mental health was viewed with suspicion by many Nigerians and many still depended on native medicines and herbalists for care. Adeoye Lambo sensing a ground for development, used the opportunity of an independent regional government to start his own out-patient treatment services, the Aro village, pioneering the use of modern curative techniques with traditional religion and native medicines. Adeoye, while at Aro, sought the help of farmers near the asylum to take some of the patients as laborers, while they simultaneously undergo medical treatment, the patients will also pay for any extra services such as housing. He traveled around the country and brought in a few traditional healers from different parts of Nigeria as healers. His style helped relieve public mistrust of mental health hospitals and brought to public discourse the care and treatment of mentally ill citizens. He is credited as providing a platform for re-integrating mentally ill patients into a normal setting and environment and shedding a little bit of the stigma associated with mentally ill individuals.
Source: Wikipedia.
Saturday, 17 January 2015
Friday, 16 January 2015
DEC 13 1967-DEC 17 1967
DEC 13 1967-DEC 17 1967; Mrs. Barbara Norgren, left, and
Mrs. Hardin Holmes Holmes examine first contribution to the May 25
auction dinner for the Institute of International Education. The
Nigerian sword, called 'a sword of the emirs,' was donated to the event
by Denver's former British consul, Laurence L'Estrange, who is currently
stationed with the British High Commission in Lagos, Nigeria. Benefit
tickets are $50.; (Photo By Orin Sealy/The Denver Post via Getty
Images)
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe (November 16, 1904 - May 11, 1966)
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe (November 16, 1904 - May 11, 1966) became the first president of Nigeria in 1960. He graduated from historically black Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1930, where his classmates were Thurgood Marshall, Cab Calloway, and Langston Hughes. He received a masters degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933. He obtained a masters degree in Anthropology from Columbia in 1934.
Picture sourced from: The Historically Black College and University
Picture sourced from: The Historically Black College and University
NIGERIA AUGUST 1960, KANO AIRPORT
August 1960: Swedish troops, part of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Republic of Congo, stand talking with Nigerian soldiers at Kano airport, Nigeria. The airport served as the staging area for the UN force, through which all troops and supplies were processed.
(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Nigeria
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (R) laughs with Noidi Okereke Onyiwke (L in purple), Director General of the Nigerian stock exchange, during a reception for the Queen at the State House shortly after her arrival 03 December 2003. Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Nigeria 03 December two days ahead of the Commonwealth summit, on her first state visit since the country won its independence from her rule in 1956.
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Robert Campbell (1829–84)
Robert Campbell (1829–84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and
teacher who, along with Martin Robison Delany (1812–85), made up the
Niger Valley Exploring Party of 1859–60, an expedition organized by free
African Americans to explore the possibility of colonizing parts of
West Africa with black immigrants from America. Campbell traveled first
to England in early 1859. He sailed on to Lagos (present-day Nigeria)
and traveled northwest to Abeokuta, where he met up with Delany, a
journalist, political activist, and graduate of Harvard Medical School.
Acting in their capacity as commissioners of the Niger Valley Exploring
Party, Delany and Campbell concluded a treaty with the king and chiefs
of the Egba giving them the right to establish settlements in the Egba
territory. A Pilgrimage to My Motherland: An Account of a Journey Among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa
is Campbell’s account of the expedition, and includes descriptions of
Abeokuta, ethnographic material, and the text of the treaty he and
Delany negotiated. The treaty ran into political resistance among the
Egba and was never implemented, but Campbell did immigrate to Africa.
With his wife and four children, he settled in Lagos in 1862, where he
founded and published the newspaper the Anglo-African and was
involved in numerous commercial, civic, and scientific ventures that
contributed to the early development of the British colony of Lagos.
Igbo-Ukwu Burial Igbo-Ukwu (Igbo: Great Igbo)
Igbo-Ukwu Burial Igbo-Ukwu (Igbo: Great Igbo) is a town in the Nigerian state of Anambra in the southeastern part of the country. It is notable for three archaeological sites, where excavations have found bronze artifacts from a highly sophisticated bronze metal-working culture dating perhaps to the ninth or tenth century, centuries before other known bronzes of the region.
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
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