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	Jaja - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jaja of Opobo (1821–1891) was a Nigerian merchant prince and the founder of Opobo state.
		Opobo soon came to dominate the region's lucrative palm oil trade, and was soon home to fourteen of what were formerly Bonny's eighteen trade houses.
		Jaja also moved to block the access of British merchants to the interior, giving him an effective monopoly; at times, Opobo even shipped palm oil directly to Liverpool, independent of British middlemen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jaja (282 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Opobo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Opobo is a city in Rivers State, southern Nigeria.
		A key centre of the palm oil trade, Opobo was founded in 1867 by Jaja, a Nigerian merchant prince.
		Under Jaja, Opobo briefly dominated the region's palm oil market, but was removed by the British in 1887 for blocking British access to Nigeria's interior.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Opobo (367 words)

	Theresa Emenike - Jaja Mbanaso from Umuduruoha Amaigbo -1821-1891
		Theresa Emenike - Jaja Mbanaso from Umuduruoha Amaigbo -1821-1891
		Jaja whose real name was Mbanaso Okwaraozurumba, the third son of Mr and Mrs Okwaraozurumba was born in Úmuduruõha Amaigbo in 1821.
		Jaja was well versed in his business that he refused to be dictated by the rules of the British traders.
	www.amaigbo.plus.com /files/jaja.html (475 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Opobo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		OPOBO [Opobo], town, SE Nigeria, in the Niger River delta.
		Opobo was founded in 1869 by a group of immigrants from nearby Bonny led by Jaja, a middleman in the palm oil trade with Europeans.
		Jaja was deported by the British in 1887, after which Opobo declined.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/Opobo.asp (183 words)

	Nigeria History
		Jaja became a noted trader on behalf of his house while still a young man. He had the confidence of the head of the canoe house who recommended him to one of the European traders who in turn entrusted goods to him.
		Again, Jaja’s strategic nose had directed him to a location which commanded the route followed by the Bonny trading canoes on their journeys to and from the important markets of the Imo River to the extreme annoyance of the Manilla Pepple house.
		His status was recognised in the agreement made between King Jaja and the British government in 1873 in which he received a guarantee that ships would not proceed further up the creek than Opobo town under pain of a heavy fine in rum puncheons.
	www.ianmccall.co.uk /jaja_1.htm (1379 words)

	:: Neo Black Movement Of Africa :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Jubo Jubogha, was forced into slavery at the age of 12, but gained his freedom while still young and prospered as an independent trader (known as Jaja by the Europeans).
		He was the founder and Chief of the territory of Opobo, an area in eastern Nigeria, which was very favourable to trading.
		Jaja and his people put up fierce resistance to this outside intervention.
	www.nbmafrica.com /black-heroes-G-K.htm (816 words)

	Jajas Opobo In Search Of Lost Glory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The impression a first time visitor to Opobo gets as he steps out of the boat nto this coastal land that seems tucked away from the outside world is that of an enclave with a lofty dream.
		One thing that Opobo has going for it is the fact that the inhabitants are trying hard to transform the outlook of the town in terms of architectural design and texture.
		Just like Ogbolo, Chief Herbert Oko Jaja, one of the surviving descendants of the founding king (Jaja), said that discipline which was the bedrock of their kingdom is gone even as he stressed that “my worry is that since the death of the late king we have not be able to have a new king’’
	nigerdeltacongress.com /jarticles/jajas_opobo_in_search_of_lost_gl.htm (1965 words)

	“WE UNCOVERED A COMPLEX SCHEME TO STEAL A NATIONAL ASSET”
		For 15 years Dr. Ruben Jaja, grandson of the historic Jaja of Opobo was California State Banking law enforcer, ensuring that banks follow government regulations in their loan management and other related activities.
		Jaja –Yes completely, because he stands for furnish, he stands for the protection of the interest of his people, he stands for full independence and sovereignty of his people and he believes strongly that for Africa to develop it must relate to its trade partners i.e.
		As you may have known, the Opobo estuary, which terminates at the entry of the Imo River, was the waterways that the Queen arrested Jaja and accused him of blocking the international sea route to commerce.
	www.africananews.com /cover/200507/complexschemeopobo.htm (2150 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Jaja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A former slave, he became an important trader in Bonny in the 1860s as a middleman between the coastal markets and the Nigerian interior.
		The traders persuaded the British vice consul, Henry Hamilton (Sir Harry) Johnston, to act against Jaja, who was seized in 1887 and then deported to the West Indies.
		Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Jaja O'Neil survived the attack on the USS Cole and is now stationed on the USS Mount Whitney in the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Djibouti.
	encyclopedia.com /html/J/Jaja.asp (249 words)

	King Jaja of Opobo
		Jaja was offered a treaty of "protection", in return for which the chiefs usually surrendered their sovereignty.
		Jaja continued to regulate trade and levy duties on British traders, to the point where he ordered a cessation of trade on the river until one British firm agreed to pay duties.
		Unknown to Jaja, the Scramble for Africa had taken place and Opobo was part of the territories allocated to Great Britain.
	www.blackhistorypages.net /pages/jaja.php (757 words)

	Janus: Miscellaneous views in Calabar, Opobo and Sierra Leone, circa 1912-1913
		The central figure, wearing European clothes, a crown and seated on a throne beneath a large umbrella is possibly Chief Frederick Sunday Jaja (1873-1915) son of King Jaja of Opobo.
		Prince Frederick was educated in London and was in 1888 temporarily exiled with his father in the British West Indies.
		King Jaja dies in 1891 and was succeeded by his son in 1893.
	janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0115/Y3043O/19 (213 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Bonny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Much of the oil refined at Port Harcourt is piped to Bonny for export.
		However, internal divisions forced Jaja and his followers to break away as the independent state of Opobo in 1867.
		In 1821, Bonny was the birthplace of Jaja, a slave who would later free himself and come to dominate much of the city's trade through the Anna Pepple House.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Bonny (822 words)

	King Jaja of Opobo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		King Jaja of Opobo is a true life story of slave boy who later became king.
		The story is set in the middle of the 19th century.
		The movie also explains Jaja's role in the politics of the Oil River of the Niger Delta and the move of the Europeans to scramble for Africa.
	www.ngex.com /entertainment/movies/kingjaja/kingjaja.htm (111 words)

	The Parable of the Tortoise’s Shell
		Jaja (of Opobo), are sanguine; others, like that told me by Beatrice Chukwunyere (of blessed memory) are tragic; and yet others, like the version relayed to me at the Federal College by Ozoemena Emerole are just plain obscure.
		Over the years, In thinking over the variations, I have arrived the opinion that each of the versions was no doubt shaped by the narrator’s psychology.
		Jaja was light-hearted; Beaty was introspective and melancholy; and Emerole was in the process of going stark raving mad when he narrated his version.
	www.geoclan.com /mc/articles/tortoisesshell.htm (340 words)

	Opobo - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Opobo, town, SE Nigeria, in the Niger River delta.
		Opobo was founded in 1869 by a group of immigrants from nearby Bonny
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	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=Opobo (212 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jaja of Opobo: The Slave Who Became a King: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Amazon.ca: Jaja of Opobo: The Slave Who Became a King: Books
		Jaja of Opobo: The Slave Who Became a King
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0582609194 (128 words)

	THISDAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		I was privileged to watch the stage play at the University of Ibadan Art Theatre some years back.
		The play featured how palm-oil brought so much pains and troubles in the colonial days leading to the deposition of the King Jaja of Opobo in order to pave way for the control of the palm-oil trade by the Royal Niger Company.
		With every opposition exiled or gagged the white colonialist was able to have a field day exploiting the local producers in order to make super-profit.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2004/01/28/20040128let01.html (477 words)

	Thoughts on the Atlantic Slave Trade
		We must know what happened to King Jaja of Opobo and his contemporaries, and whether there was truly no African resistance to slave trade.
		Part of the “conditions” Europeans created for the Atlantic Slave Trade was the importation of chains, padlocks, guns, and various crude gadgets to Africa, and the obvious demonstration of their uses to the Africans.
		If the account we heard about how Europeans dehumanized King Jaja of Opobo were true, if the story about how they subjugated the proud Kingdom of the Benin people was anything to learn from, Africans had to cooperate when Europeans came to them with carrots asking to ship away fellow Africans.
	www.westafricareview.com /vol1.2/vol1.2a/naallah.html (4134 words)

	01/20/05: Slavery in the USA vs. slavery in African cultures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		On the contrary, it was not at all uncommon for African owners to adopt slave children or to marry slave women, who then became full members of the family.
		Slaves of talent accumulated property and in some instances reached the status of kings; Jaja of Opobo (in Nigeria) is a case in point.
		When Nigeria's Madame Tinubu, herself a slave-trader, discovered the difference between domestic and non-African slavery, she became an abolitionist, actively rejecting what she saw as the corruption of African slavery by the unjust and inhumane habits of its foreign practitioners and by the motivation to make war for profit on the sale of captives.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/coachcarter/80/18.html (275 words)

	No. 1359: Of crooks and laughter
		This Ijaw Chief has fooled the Brits, the same ones that bombarded Akassa, and deceitfully captured King Jaja of Opobo sending him into exile for him merely to die in Tenerife, on his way out of their distressful terror chambers.
		Remember too, the great Nana Olomu another one from that region, except that he was an Itshekiri.
		Jaja with all the charms that the Brits accused him could not induce his "disappearance" from the British Naval ship in which he was captured and subsequently exiled.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/1359.html (1031 words)

	A harvest of havoc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		igeria is a product of all sorts of colonial coups, from the “sale” of Lagos to the “treaty” with King Jaja of Opobo.
		The order to establish the country was a coup—the people had no idea what hit them.
		Nigerians must retreat from romance and return to reality; and, in between, they must decide how to coexist constructively.
	www.kwenu.com /features/harvest_havoc.htm (518 words)

	Edofolks - The First Edo Website
		Earlier a similar treaty was sent by Britain to the King Jaja of Opobo who refused to sign.
		Instead he asked Britain to define what "protectorate" meant.
		she undertakes to extend her "gracious favor and protection", which will leave your country still under your government" Jaja then signed.
	www.edofolks.com /html/pub62.htm (121 words)

	Jaja's World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		My name is JaJa, and yes that is my real name.
		But, in northern Nigeria there once was a king named JaJa of the Opobo people.
		But back to me, I love to play sports, listen to music, sing, and talk to girls.
	www.thetalkingdrum.com /jaja.html (125 words)

	WATCH OUT NOW! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		They are located all over Nigeria and patroned quite frequently by Nigerians of all ages.
		There is a hall of portraits of past heros such as Queen Amina who was the 1st women warrior (she ruled during the 16th century) and King Jaja of Opobo who led a revolt against the British and was consequently deported to the West Indies where he died in 1891.
		There is also a hall that has potraits of leaders of post independent Nigeria.
	www.urbanfacez.com /watch.html (222 words)

	Nigerians In America Village Square - View Single Post - My Problem with mainstream Afrocentrism
		This was primary school level history and civics.
		The syllabus in my Ogun state was quite good, and covered all these things in depth, including historical personages like Othman dan Fodio Founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, Jaja of Opobo, Lisabi, Kosoko, Tinubu etc. All at primary school level !!!
		I don't know about the educational system in other states, but if it was as good, then other Nigerians on this board should be able to fill you in on things like these.
	www.nigeriansinamerica.com /vbulletin/showpost.php?p=958&postcount=2 (185 words)

	Coaster Enthusiast - View Article - New Park Planned for Nigeria
		That spot is a 15,000 acre site on the outskirts of Nigeria's Federal Capital City, Abuja, which has been earmarked by Nigerian authorities for the project and for other tourism related developments such as a wildlife park and safari, hotels, vacation homes, retail and movie theaters.
		The park will feature the normal rides plus re-creations of ancient African Kingdoms and Empires such as Oyo, Egypt, Songhai, Nubia, Ashanti, Kanem Borno and the Kings and Queens who presided over them such as Queen Nefertiti, King Jaja of Opobo, Queen Amina, the great Zulu warrior, Shaka Zulu among others.
		The project will also bring to life themes from African movies, festivals, legends and folklore.
	coasterenthusiast.com /viewarticle.cfm?newsID=174 (289 words)

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