Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a Yoruba princess of the Egbado clan, is best known as Queen Victoria of Great Britain’s goddaughter. Bonetta was born in what is now southwest Nigeria around 1843. Her parents’ identities are unknown, as are the names…
Carlota Lucumi, a kidnapped African lady, was a slave insurrection leader at the Triunvirato farm in Mantanzas, Cuba. Carlota was a free African-born woman from the West African Kingdom of Benin. Her surname, Lucumi, is derived from her ethnic group,…
Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa (commonly abbreviated to Efunroye Tinubu) was a brilliant and ambitious Nigerian business magnate who exerted immense economic and political power in Abeokuta and Lagos. She was born in the Yoruba town of Abeokuta in Western Nigeria in…
