It was unusual for a slave, pledged to the gods, to end up getting a reprieve from a mindless fellow such as King Ghezo. It was not also commonplace for the Queen of England to adopt a black child, send her to school and arrange for her to be married in the deeply racial Victorian society.
The story of the young Egbado native, Aina, aka Anna in the Ghezo court; Sarah Forbes Bonetta to Captain Forbes; and Sally to Queen Victoria, portends some lessons for the present. First, that story put paid to the fantastic tales of why Europe and America should bear all the responsibilities for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Anna proves that African elites were not just sitting idly by in the inhuman trafficking of fellow Africans to the whites.
Third, and why Anna is relevant, is that contempt for life that still looms large here, in her place of birth. Life now is nasty, brutish and short, like in the days of her captivity. Now like then, armed men stomp our homes, roads and forests in murderous rage and without fear of recompense. Commuting from one point to another has become a hazardous undertaking.
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