[HN Gopher] Royal Families
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       Royal Families
        
       Author : youcould
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2021-10-20 23:47 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
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       | rjtavares wrote:
       | Beautiful essay that threw me on a tangent that lead me to the
       | first Sub-Saharan graduate in a European University, Olu Atuwatse
       | I (aka Olu Dom Domingos), who studied in Coimbra (on the same
       | University I also graduated from, and my hometown) in the early
       | 1600s and married a Portuguese women. The Itsekiri crown was
       | offered to Olu Dom Domingos by the King of Portugal, and is still
       | used today.
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       | I just love how interconnected we all are.
       | 
       | Some links, for those interested:
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       | https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/23/africa/olu-of-warri-coron...
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       | https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/the-crown-of-the-olu-of-...
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       | https://guardian.ng/saturday-magazine/why-kingmakers-made-ts...
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       | https://thinkafrica.net/the-itsekiri-kingdom-1480-ad-present...
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olu_Atuwatse_I
        
         | sam_goody wrote:
         | I hadn't realized the Benin were connected to the Portugese at
         | all (and I have both Portugese and Nigerian in the family!)
         | 
         | If you have knowledge about this, would it be possible to email
         | you?
        
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