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BY: Seun Williams
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| Front view of Badagry Slave Market Museum International [Credit: Badagry from Above] |
The Badagry Slave Market Museum International (a.k.a. Musée International du Marché aux Esclaves de Badagry) is a museum that chronicles the history of the trade in enslaved Africans in the town's erstwhile Vlekete Slave Market.
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| Aerial view of Badagry Slave Market Museum International [Credit: Badagry from Above] |
Commissioned in August 2022, it is Badagry's newest enslavement history museum, joining 3 already existing ones. The museum features several educative galleries. These include galleries on: Slave Dealers, Middle Passage, Travails, Revolt, Liberators and Abolitionists, and Similar Slave Markets across the globe.
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| Front aerial view of Badagry Slave Market Museum International [ Credit: Badagry from Above] |
It equally features a relic cannon gun, and a model slave dungeon—a dark, underground cell where errant slaves were kept, all chained and muzzled up. There is also an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting the 1825 trial of Richard Lander for treason in Badagry's Traditional Court, as well as several other sculptured busts.
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| High altitude aerial view of Badagry Slave Market Museum International [Credit: Badagry from Above] |
This is indeed an innovatively curated museum. Also, it is useful to point out that the museum is bilingual—English and French.
This is a facility you should visit on your next trip to Badagry.
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