Badagry Festival
badagry festival annual event held badagry town lagos state nigeria organised african renaissance foundation arefo event reflects significance ancient town slave trade era convergence culture display african heritage organizer brings indegine cultureloving fan around world celebrate festival one major highlight artistic display masquerade dancer fire eater feature football competition beating sato drum liberation day celebration festival initiated commemorate end slave trade era significance ancient city period sato drum sato drum traditional drum usually beaten celebration tall played stick believed drum played orphan sato drum became popular played kaduna badagry festival started symposium tagged toussaint louverture catalyst struggle liberation black symposium dedicated memory late haitian revolutionary toussaint louverture created first black republic western hemisphere august event started august ended august festival creates platform nigeria african diaspora reunite motherland held badagry grammar school badagry lagos nigeria festival coincidentally fell august declared unesco international day remembrance slave trade abolition festival started rd till th august international symposium olaudah equiano symposium dedicated olaudah equiano former slave boy kidnapped age taken europe later bought freedom autobiography interesting narrative life olaudah equiano gustavus vassa african became famous exposure description life nigeria abolition stand slave trade festival theme ‘african diaspora future africa’ administrative staff college nigeria topo badagry used event first festival grand finale took place saturday august th badagry grammar school feature milieu cultural extravaganza music name badagry derives mean livelihood indigenous people city include fishing farming salt making however others believe city named agbada popular farmer whose farm named agbadagrimeh later pronounced badagry european early th century badagry served route european slave transported new destination buyer house cenotaph point returnnow called gberefu village place well enchanted ensure slave drank forgot destination end th century badagry one route benefited recurrent battle port novo dahomey movement slave badagry noted auction point slave captured intervillage warfare chief mobee among african chief participated slave trade first twostorey building built marina badagry presently site facing massive environmental degradation due lack maintenance government well activity commercial tree feller government babatunde fashola effort reignite glory city started construction badagry expressway project commissioning badagry marina project ojude oba festival igogo festival badagry lagosbadagry expressway