Benin: Monuments from slave trade era restored in Ouidah city
Benin: Monuments from slave trade era restored in Ouidah city
As anti-racism protests in the United States and Europe grew, so did demands for the removal of statues linked to slavery.
Protesters toppled and vandalised some, others were removed by city leaders.
But a coastal city in Benin in West Africa is going the other way – restoring monuments from the slave trade era.
It is part of a billion-dollar…
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The real Jews
Great report!
Hey, Afrocentrists! Tell them to give us our reparations! 😮
This was "the kingdom of Judah"
You sell my people and expect us to forget who we really are we are the people sent to the 4 corners of the Earth script of our mothers language
Ouidah means Judah, the people of Ouidah are the Jews.
I am not sorry I hate Africans for selling my ancestors! I am American.
In the 1870’s, a French public research university called, the University of Montepellier, put out a book(below)on geography.
The book talks about the Kingdom of Juda, stating,
“Whydah (Fidah, Hwedah, Ouida, Judah, or Ajuda) is a old city frequented since the 16th century by the Portuguese slavers, who gave it its name. It’s inhabitants were said to be Judaic, “and they were indeed considered as a remnant of scattered tribes of Israel”
In 1876 a French geographer named, Élisée Reclus also , wrote about the Kingdom of Juda in his book called, “The Earth and Its Inhabitants.”
He wrote: “Known to Europeans by various names of Fida, Heredah, Whydah, Wida. The old writers called it Juda, and it’s inhabitants were said to be Jews.”
Near the Kingdom of Juda was also the region known as Guinea. During the 1600’s, the English traveler John Ogilby, wrote about the coast of Guinea in Africa.
He stated: “Many Jews also are scattered over this region; some Natives, boasting themselves of Abraham’s seed, inhabiting both sides of the river Niger”
Is Benoit Dauando not African? If so in what sense were his "ancestors deported by the colonizers"?
Seems more likely it was his ancestors selling slaves, not "the colonizers".
Al Jazeera is always forgetting the Arab slave trade which lasted for 1400 years where black Africans were being enslaved and only ended because of the West.
You could buy a black slave in Mecca up until 1962, when the west put a stop to it. If it wasn't for the west Black people would be still being sold in Mecca and all over the Islamic world
To remember the past is to know your future.
Wow they look like black Americans!
This sad af
There's a great judgment coming to all the nations who participated in the slave trade. Though they think they will get away with it, but judgment is never late.
What do those symbols mean?
The Bible should be banned everywhere since it promotes slavery and even sets down rules.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, treat your slaves justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. Exodus 21:2
When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.Titus 2:9-10
Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
Those benefited from slavery must compensate enslaved people ancestors
"Benin City" is the capital of Edo State in Nigeria. This headline should read Ouida city in Republic of Benin, to avoid confusion. Thanks.
Meanwhile Belgium and the Congo, nothing happened here.
How can a reputable News Channel like Al Jazeera network make such a mistake, Benin City is an ancient city in Southern Nigeria and it's Capital of Edo state.
This story is about a town in Benin Republic a small francophone country bordering Western part Nigeria.
Deuteronomy 28 all day long.
This media speaks as if the slave trade has ended, when it is the Arab that is the worst, most engaged as slavers now. Today.
This is a cotonu Benin Republic not Benin city Nigeria do your homework before publishing please
This Benin Republic, not Benin City (Nigeria). Smh
Yea, but you’re still speaking in French.
Probably need to focus more on how global warming will completely wipe out poverty stricken nations such as this.
This is in Benin Republic not Benin city in Southern Nigeria. Quite confusing
“It's vital to acknowledge the past”
Agreed
No mater how bad it was
The Slave Coast smh
The situations are different, the statues being removed are of "famous" or infamous heroes who fought in America's civil war on the side that wanted to keep slavery and to separate the USA into two countries. It's not changing the past, it's being corrected. Slavery will always be remembered in the US as long as we have the descendants who remind us of that great evil and the part it played in the history of our country. What is here is a memorial to all those people whose lives were changed forever, who would never see their homeland again, not a monument to a single slave owner or trader. It's wonderful.
Why dont we send American blacks back to Africa to feel like home ?
Who must pay for that insult ⁉️