George Goldie Quotes
We always looked on Akassa as being as safe as Picadilly.
On January 29, 1895 the Brass King, Koko, and 1000 warriors attacked the British trading station. The destroyed the harbor and docks and took many employees of the British Niger Company back to Brass as prisoners. The Niger Company had taken over the middleman trade that the Brassmen had previously enjoyed and had other grievances with the company. In a celebration of the victory, most of the company employee prisoners were eaten. See Koko’s later apology.
George Goldie, 1846-1925, Founder and Governor, Royal Niger Company, Statement to the British Foreign Office regarding the Brassman revolt and the sacking of the British Trading Company, the Royal Niger Company, trading station in Akassa, of the Brass region of Niger, 1895
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Both the British and the Belgians were vying for Katanga to become a part of their empire. Msiri, it’s king was a cruel tyrant, was hated by his people, many of whom he had had murdered. Each night he slept in a different hut for fear of assassination. The appeal was typical of European powers “persuading” African potentates to join their empires.
See also Coke's Reports, Semayne's Case, 1605. Compare Blackstone, above.
Salisbury had always been opposed to colonial adventurism and was opposed to the jingo segment of English society associated with his Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. Nonetheless, Britain became more embroiled in Africa. Salisbury’s explanation was in French: “L’appetit vient en mangeant.”
His government had just used force to disarm the rebellion of religious Kurds.
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. Born near Damascus in Syria, grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik,Abd al Rahman was the son of the Umayyad prince Mu'awiya ibn Hisham and a Berber mother. He was twenty when his family, the ruling Umayyads, were overthrown by a popular revolt known as the Abbasid Revolution, occurring in the year 750. Abd al-Rahman and a small selection of his family fled Damascus with assassins chasing him. He ended up running to Spain, and there built his incredibly successful dynasty.
Sir George Dashwood Taubman Goldie KCMG FRS was a Manx administrator who played a major role in the founding of Nigeria. In many ways, his role was similar to that of Cecil Rhodes elsewhere in Africa but he did not seek publicity.
