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Àkọsílẹ̀ 694 ní àwọn apá 38. Ṣàyẹ̀wò nípa apá, ìpele, ìdánilójú tàbí àmì.
A dynastic quarrel inside one Lagos family, a British bombardment in December 1851 justified by the slave trade, and the cession of 1861 that made Lagos a British colony and began the conquest of Nigeria.
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.
The historical development of Lagos Èkó from its Awori foundations and Benin dynastic origins to its institutional structures, royal succession, and nineteenth-century political transformation.