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Feb 14

King Ibrahim Mbouombouo Njoya (1867-1933) of Bamum, Western Cameroon, had 600 wives and 177 children.

Out of fear that important historical facts of the Bamum could be erased or corrupted, he developed the Bamum alphabet of 70 symbols and a writing system to preserve his kingdom's oral history which the French later destroyed.

Njoya, as part of ways to ensure the written language was widely adopted, established schools and directed that the Bamum language be used as a form of instruction along with the German language.

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Feb 13

MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: DESTROY YOUR ENEMIES

No sitting American President had more enemies than Abraham Lincoln. He had a great strategy for destroying them; he befriended them. In fact, one of them would eventually take his life.

Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) and Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) were enemies, both legal and political. Stanton did not like Lincoln, at first, at all. He had told everyone that Lincoln was an original gorilla, an imbecile, and a disgrace.

Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of gravest peril; Stanton would lash himself into a fury over the same condition of things. Stanton would take hardships with a groan; Lincoln would find a funny story to fit them.

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Dec 20, 2022

Yoruba High Priestess and Artist, Susanne Wenger (July 4, 1915 – January 12, 2009), also known as Adunni Oloriṣa, in a studio with her adopted children, Oṣogbo, 1964.

When Wenger emigrated to Ibadan, Nigeria in 1949, she became sick with tuberculosis and was subsequently taken to a Yoruba herbalist in Ẹdẹ, present-day Osun State, who cured her of the disease.

Wenger was then attracted to the Yoruba language and religion, and became a High Priestess of the Òrìṣà, where she established herself in the revival of the religion.

She also became the guardian of the Sacred Grove of the Osun goddess on the banks of the Osun River in Oṣogbo.

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Dec 20, 2022

Lagos Lawyer, Moronfolu Abayomi was shot dead in a Lagos courthouse at the Tinubu Square, on August 25, 1923, three months and 15 days after his wedding day.

Abayomi's killer was a popular Lagos entrepreneur and "big boy”, Duro Delphonso, from the renowned Delphonso family.

Delphonso was having a legal battle with his Insurance Company and the case was taken to court. The Insurance Company then hired a young and vibrant lawyer, Barrister Moronfolu Abayomi.

As the case proceeded, the young Barrister was able to prove clearly that Delphonso committed arson on his home and business in order to defraud the Insurance Company.

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Dec 19, 2022

Babangida justified the execution of Vatsa in 1986 in an interview shortly after he turned 60, saying that after Vatsa's coup was foiled, he realised his childhood friend planned the coup in line with a deep-seated personal rivalry dating back to their days as young officers.

Babangida claimed that he and Vatsa had been tremendous competitors unintentionally; that as a young officer, everything he did, Vatsa did as well, and whatever Vatsa attained, he pursued as well.

Lieutenant-General Theophilus Y. Danjuma, Babangida claimed, pointed this out to him in their military records.

Ibrahim Babangida gave this rationalisation to justify why he could not pardon Vatsa.

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Dec 17, 2022

The Yoruba people fought one of the longest tribal wars in world history from 1877 to 1893.

The Kiriji or Ekiti-parapo War was a 16-year conflict that broke out mainly between Ibadan and the combined forces of Ekiti and Ijesha. It was a war that ended all wars in Yoruba land.

"Kiriji" was an onomatopoeic name given to the war from the thunderous sound of the cannons the Ekitis and Ijeshas, under the command of Ogedengbe, purchased in abundance which gave them an advantage over the Ibadan forces. However, it ended in a stalemate.

Thus, the Kiriji War remains one of the world's longest civil wars by any ethnic group.

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