We will know beyond any doubt in the nearing hours or days… The gathering met today in Lagos to pick a running mate for Buhari and I hear it was Amaechi they picked. The two men were spotted eating at the beginning of today at Intercontinental.
Matilda McCrear lived long enough to become a human bridge between Africa, American slavery, and the modern era. Born in West Africa around 1857, she was captured as a toddler and transported across the Atlantic aboard the Clotilda in 1860—the last known ship to bring enslaved Africans illegally into the United States. Her Yoruba name was Àbáké, meaning “born to be loved by all.” The facial scars on her left cheek, preserved in photographs, marked her as Yoruba. The voyage ...