FEMALE WRESTLING IN LEBOKU FESTIVAL : The Yakö People Kepu Wrestling

The wrestling style young women practice is “Traditional West African,” but Leboku matches take place on a rug and in a ring resembling American-style WWE wrestling, which is popular among Nigerian television viewers. Unlike in the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), the wrestling is very real and referees aren’t just for show. The girls demonstrate great wrestling skills and techniques indicating hard pre-training the girls have to accomplish in order to prepare for such prestigious and important competition. A trip to take part in the Leboku festival every month of August would have you left your mouth wide open......................... 

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The immoral trade that changed the world

Before the mid-17th century, Benin exported slaves not only to the new world, but also to Europe and the Gold coast in 1506, a slave typically cost be­tween twelve and fifteen Manilas (brass bracelets); by 1517, the price has risen to 57 Manilas. After the 1520s, cowrie shells replaced Manilas as the most popular “money” in the slave trade. Goods such as hats, beads etc. were also battered for slaves. From the late 16th to the late 17th century, Benin never sold its own citizens, but only female captives (in­cluding Igbo, Sobo, Ijaw and others) captured in a war or purchased from neighboring peoples.  From the mid-17th century to 18th century, how­ever, slaves became the principal trade “goods” acquired by Europeans, and foreign male prison­ers and eventually citizens of Benin itself were also sold abroad. In the heyday of the slave trade, Be­nin supplied 3,000 slaves a year. Slaves were not the only major articles purchased by the Europeans (others included pepper, ivory cloth, etc.).

The slave trade from Benin continued until the 19th centu­ry, long after the official abolition of the overseas slave trade. Benin’s rise and decline were not de­termined primarily by the slave trade, although the European presence in general and the slave trade in particular did accelerate or hinder specific social, economic, political, and cultural processes................

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Tales of Missing Aircrafts

The term missing, lost, gone astray or AWOL; con­notes a deep sense of tragedy to the owner or pos­sessor of the element on spotlight. It only becomes weird and disheartening when “a kid throws a soft ball to his dad; expecting the dad to catch and throw back but finds out that the soft-ball is lost in a near­by shrub and all efforts to find it seems futile. Over the years, tales have been told about missing aeri­al transport on the Bermuda triangle and a host of others sharing a similar fate to the missing soft ball within the airspace. They all left for their various destinations in a bid to either meet up with loved ones or otherwise as the case may be but met with abrupt turbulence or forms of technical oddities which result in its disappearance within the airspace some of them found in a wreck state with no survi­vors, others returned after several days of drifting and others haven’t been found till date. However, this article will attempt to throw more light on most of the aerial transport lost throughout history and show­ing relevant pictures to back the stories behind each aircraft misdemeanor.............................

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