Dark Africa

  "The blacksmith takes an iron bar and by fire changes its fashion so have we changed our nature. We are no longer women, we are men "                                                    The Agojie ALPERN, Stanley B. Amazons of Black Sparta : The Women Warriors of Dahomey, London: C. Hurst & Co. Ltd. 2011 Have you heard about the  Agojie Female African Warriors ? Hey Africans and Friends from other Continents! Have you ever heard of the Agojie warriors? They were some of the bravest women in history and lived in a place called Dahomey, which is now part of Benin in Africa. 10 tips on surviving Nigeria A Little History: The Agojie, also known as the "Dahomey Amazons," were fierce female warriors"  an "all female regiment who fought to protect the kingdom of Dahomey.They existed between 15th to the 17th century.  Belonging to a warri...

                 The Murder of Twins Imagine a world where the birth of twins is met with hostility and grievous action! A community murder.  Until the mid-1930s, the birth of twins was widely viewed as bad omen and luck by the people of southern Nigeria. Twins where routinely killed by abandonment in bushes known as 'the evil forest'. A large swath of jungle where lawbreakers, taboo subjects, victims of leprosy where sent to.  Buy us coffee The village shaman or Chief priest is then mandated to cleanse the land by offering sacrifices to placate the gods. This practices persisted especially  until it's abolishment after vigorous effort by Mary Slessor a missionary who took it upon herself to educate the people on this despicable practice.                 King zubby on unpslash Known as the mother of twins sustained vigorous effort on her part to end this double fracticide yielded result...