The Badagry Heritage Museum

Badagry, the town with the busiest land border in Africa also serves as a tourist delight with its many historical monuments and sites. Among the many tourist attractions that ranges from the First storey building in Nigeria to the Slave Market to the spot where christianity was first preached in Nigeria is the Badagry Heritage Museum which now occupies the former District officers Office on Richard Lander road in Badagry. My relationship with this great museum dates as far back as August 2001 when it was first opened to the public during the Maiden edition of the Black heritage festival organised by the Lagos State Waterfront and Tourism Development Corporation and the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) as a festival under the Slave Route Projects. Ever since then i have had numerous visit to the musem and each time, i am always confronted with the reality of the Trans atlantic slave trade era and the reality of what many of our African fore fathers faced during the time. It is a very good historical site to visit and with the professionality and high level experience of the Curators-Mr peter Mesewaku and Mr. Tunde Ajose, you will surely thank your star for the visit. It is a very diferent museum that will open your eyes to African history with great emphasis on the time of the Slave trade. The building itself is a monument and it visibly show it as its was built by the Colonial Masters themselves in the year 1863 and served as the District officers office. The museum is a complete history of the slave trade as you will be guided and systematicaly toured begining from the advent of the slave trade, to the capture, to selling of slaves, and then to the movement of the slaves through the point of no return to the Gberefu island and then to the waiting slave ship and then you will be shown the arrivals of slaves, the auctioning of slaves and to the torture, punnishments for run away slaves or aggressives slaves, to the diferent slaves revolts and the consequences and then to the abolition struggle and finally to the final abolition of the inhuman trade. It is a great experience to visit this museum annd many other historical sites in this ancient, historical town calld Badagry.I enjoyed all my visits to this great munuments and i am very certain that you will enjoy and benefit greatly too if you also visit...