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People·24 min

The Returnees: Saro, Amaro and Agudá

The Yoruba people who came back, from Sierra Leone and from Brazil and Cuba, and what they built in Lagos: the mosques, the Brazilian quarter, the newspapers, and a babaláwo who carried Ifá back across the Atlantic.

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Towns·23 min

Lagos, Èkó: Àwórì Town, Benin Camp, British Colony

The island town with three overlapping origins, its Àwórì land-owning chiefs, its Benin-derived kingship, the 1851 bombardment and 1861 cession, and the Brazilian quarter the returnees built.

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