Olasupo Shasore Knihy

Operation Legacy Looting and Losing Africa's Kingdoms is a treatment of how colonial powers looted precious artefacts across Africa; still hold them in personal and public collections, some known and others unknown; and the violence of the looting and its consequences. The story reaches back into the basic assumptions around colonial rule and debunks them in spectacular contemporary fashion. All these are seen through the lens of the most recent looting exercise, captured in the revealing of the top-secret colonial scheme known as 'Operation Legacy', revealing the agitators that led to the discovery. Seeing the connected dots, the book exposes the looted artifact. and looted archives and the belief that the hasty return 200 years late will make good the original sin. All these and more make this book a compelling read.

Lagos was already POSSESSED by Britain when in 1862, Henry Pelham-Clinton, Duke of Newcastle and Secretary of State for Colonies agonised; he worried that "the original sin of taking possession of Lagos" would lead to meddling by force of arms of the British government. He couldn't have realised how prophetic his concerns would be. From 1851 up till 1906, the British Imperial Navy and its collaborators would use force and random justice to achieve this possession, and more - it would ultimately lead to a forced amalgamation of the Lagos Colony, firstly to a Niger coast (Southern) protectorate, and then with the Northern protectorate, in 1914. Along the 1.vay, the story of brave individual and collective struggle against imperial control reveals the heroism, courage and defiance of the Lagos Africans in order to resist domination at first, and then to survive its consequences -The Crown Colony of Lagos. This is a new and revealing this of hidden accounts, court evidence, testimony and papers of enquiry, showing how colonization employed "law and justice" to achieve its pernicious objectives -changing the course and African society.