Desperate and grasping at straws, detached American Black celebrities, Spike Lee, Ciara, and Lauryn Hill, are promoting citizenship from The Republic of Benin; The Dahomey Slave Traders.
Spike Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis Lee, have been appointed as ambassadors for the Benin Republic in the United States, specifically for Black Americans..
They will serve as “thematic” ambassadors, promoting initiatives that reconnect people of African descent with their heritage in Benin — who sold their ancestors into chattel slavery in the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade..
This appointment comes as Benin has been actively working to engage with the African diaspora to promote their transatlantic slavery trading theme park, which also, includes offering citizenship to descendants of enslaved Africans..
Tonya Lewis Lee, was among those who applied for citizenship through the country’s new program. The Lee’s role as ambassadors is intended to raise awareness and support for Benin’s grift of Black Americans — under the guise of fostering cultural and historical connections with descendants of the African diaspora..
The Lee’s, heavily influenced by the American Democratic Party, was appointed by Benin — to encourage descendants of American chattel slaves to return to Benin where their ancestors were sold into the transatlantic slave trade..
In 2024, Benin passed a law offering nationality to people with African ancestors who was taken from their homeland as part of the transatlantic slave trade, which spanned approximately 366 years, from the mid — 16th century until slavery was abolished in America in 1866.
Benin launched a website where descendants can apply for citizenship, so that they can now grift from delusional Black Americans whose ancestors were sold, brutalized, raped, and murdered, during the transatlantic slave trade.
Actor, singer and songwriter, Lauryn Hill, also attended the citizenship ceremonies in Benin when she received her citizenship..
Reports are that Hill was able to trace her ancestry to Benin, which aligns with the new law in Benin designed to welcome people of African descent, particularly descendants of enslaved individuals — back to their ancestral homeland..
Singer, Ciara, also was granted citizenship under the new Benin law — offering citizenship to descendants of African slaves who were sold during the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas.
Ciara is of African-American ethnicity with a small amount of English and Native American ancestry.…
DNA test results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2024) stated that Ciara’s genetic ancestry consists of:
*85% African
*13% European
*2% Native American
Understanding the brutal history of the transatlantic slave trade at the hands of the Republic of Benin, and Benin, Nigeria.
Though exact totals will never be known, the transatlantic slave trade is believed to have forcibly displaced some 12.5 million Africans between the 17th and 19th centuries; some 10.6 million survived the infamous Middle Passage across the Atlantic…
Though descendants of these enslaved Africans now make up considerable segments of the population in the United States, Brazil and many Caribbean islands, written records of their ancestors’ origins are difficult—if not impossible—to find. Through extensive research, however, scholars have been able to make educated guesses about where many of the enslaved people brought to the New World originated…
Enslaved people brought to the United States represented about 3.6 percent of the total number of Africans transported to the New World, or around 388,000 people—considerably less than the number transported to colonies in the Caribbean (including more than 1.2 million to Jamaica alone) or to Brazil (4.8 million)
Countries in Africa that sold slaves to the Americas included Dahomey (present-day Benin), Angola, and parts of modern-day Nigeria. These regions were significant sources of enslaved people during the transatlantic slave trade…
The area encompassing modern-day Benin and Nigeria has a deeply intertwined and painful history with the transatlantic slave trade, which profoundly impacted the region for centuries.
The Kingdom of Benin, located in present-day Nigeria, was involved in the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th to the 19th centuries, where local rulers captured and sold slaves to European traders. This trade significantly contributed to the kingdom’s wealth and power, but it also led to social and economic consequences that are still being reckoned with today….
The slave trade became a major source of wealth for the kingdom. Local tribes, including the Fon people of Dahomey, often captured and sold their own people to European traders, contributing to the trade’s expansion…
The Kingdom of Dahomey (/dəˈhoʊmi/) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904….
In the city of Ouidah, Benin, can be found multiple artefacts, sites and statues related to the slave trade in Africa….
The city of Ouidah was at the end of the slave trail of Benin and an important hub for the Atlantic Slave Trade…
Slavery was rampant in West Africa and a lot of the slaves were being sold to feed the needs of Europeans entrepreneurs…
Today, tourists from around the world and descendants of chattel slaves come to Ouidah, Benin to be educated about slavery…
And, to walk along the 4 kilometres Benin slave trail from the center of the city to the sea — where slaves were packed on boats to be shipped out to different countries and never come back to their native lands….
During slavery in Benin, warring tribal kings would organise raiding parties to attack rival tribes and catch strong men and women to sell them to Europeans….
Slavery was already a thing in Africa before the arrival of colonists but it is with their arrival that it was turned into an industry….
The kingdom of Dahomey was the most powerful kingdom in the land that would become later on Benin and using its supremacy in war built its fortune selling their own people into slavery….
It is the Kingdom of Dahomey that also owned Ouidah, the most important slave port around, and would allow other kings to come and sell slaves to European merchants as long as they paid taxes. Hundreds of thousands of human beings were sold into slavery in Ouidah…
The Tree of Forgetfulness is a significant historical symbol related to the transatlantic slave trade, particularly in the context of the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Benin….
This tree was part of a ritual designed to erase the memories of enslaved individuals before they were sold into slavery…
Captives were made to walk around the tree multiple times—men nine times and women seven times….
This ritual aimed to make them forget their origins, families, and cultures….
The belief was that by forgetting their past, enslaved individuals would be more compliant and less likely to resist during their transport across the Atlantic….
Ouidah, Benin, where the Tree of Forgetfulness is located, was one of the largest slave trading ports in West Africa. The Kingdom of Dahomey played a crucial role in capturing and selling enslaved people to European traders….
The tree symbolizes the brutal practices of the slave trade and the efforts to dehumanize individuals by severing their ties to their heritage….
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