Martin Delany to Africa – To Be More Than Equal 1 –
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Martin Delany – To Be More Than Equal 1 Credits 17:19
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Martin Delany to Africa – To Be More than Equal 2, Enthralls West Africa – summer, 1859
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Martin Delany to Africa – To Be More Than Equal 3 Credits 34:19
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This is a 3-part of a series about Martin Delany, born in 1812 in Charles Town, then Virginia going on to be the first African-American field officer in the U.S. Army, organizer in 1859 of a year long scientific expedition in West Africa, Harvard educated physician, co-editor of The North Start with Frederick Douglass, author of several books including one of the very first important novels by an African-American. It was called “Blake: The Huts of American,” the story of a traveling insurrectionist serialized in the Anglo-African magazine in 1858-1860. After Lincoln met him in February, 1865 in the White House, the President immediately sent a memo to his Secretary of War, stating: “Do not fail to have an interview with this most intelligent and extraordinary black man.”

With Sonny Luckett as Martin Delany

Made possible with the generous, community-minded support of American Public University System (apus.edu) to encourage fact-based discussion into the foundational issues from which our nation has evolved.

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(Dahomean women warrior song) “The enemy is on the tip of my machete.” Delany wrote his rich, do-gooder friends in England to not even THINK about sending money to the Dahomey.
(Dahomean women warrior song continued) “we’re going to cut him into small pieces.” (Delany) “For the sake of humanity” he wrote. Dahomey was notoriously focused on war, slave hunts, mass human sacrifice and beheadings. Farming and trades were scorned in favor of conquests and plunder from twice-a-year slave hunts, their source of money. 5,000 elite, fierce women warriors formed the core. Martin Delany planned his trip for mid-August, 1859 to Abeokuta – the walled city that protected against slavers. He postponed. A mass human sacrifice was done in July in which the Dahomeans used the blood of 2,000 victims to fill a ditch with enough blood “to float a canoe” Every August this “Grand Custom” used this blood to “water the graves” of past Kings.

0:47 – Dahomean women singing – Channel 4 is a British public broadcast service. Lupita Nyong’o Meets Real Warrior Women Nov 3, 2019 youtube.com
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1:18 – Kodo Spirit of Taiko over images 8-20 to 2:22
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1:18 – machete strikes over images 8-20 to 2:22
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Delany responding to the news of the 1859 Grand Custom:

On subsidizing the King of Dahomi: There is some talk by Christians and philanthropists in Great Britain of subsidizing the King of Dahomi. I hope for the sake of humanity, our race, and the cause of progressive civilization, this most injurious measure of compensation for wrong, never will be resorted to nor attempted.

To make such an offering just at a time when we are about to establish a policy of self-regeneration in Africa, which may, by example and precept, effectually check forever the nefarious system, and reform the character of these people, would be to offer inducements to that monster to continue, and a license to other petty chiefs to commence the traffic in human beings, to get a reward of subsidy.

Delany, Martin R. (1861). “OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE NIGER VALLEY EXPLORING PARTY.” New York, T. Hamilton. p. 58. hathitrust.org
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2:29 – Sona Jobarteh & Band Kora from West Africa over images 22-34 to 3:52
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Maurice Brown – Acoustic Guitar
Andi McLean – Electric Bass/ BVs
Mouhamadou Sarr – Djembe/ Congas/ Calabash/ BVs
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After the Dehomeans cooled off, Delany with his cook and guide, William Johnson, both on horseback started for Abeokuta. But then a civil war all over Yoruba drove them back to Lagos. “At least,” Delany wrote. “the climate was delightful.” Every person should rise early in Africa, as the air is then coolest, freshest, and purest; the sight and song of the numerous birds to be seen and heard, produce a healthful influence upon the mental and physical system.

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Softest Beach Sounds from the Tropics – Ocean Wave Sounds for Sleeping, Yoga, Meditation, Study – Lounge V Films – Relaxing Music and Nature Sounds
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Bathing
Bathing should be strictly observed by every person at least once every day. Each family should be provided with a large sponge, or one for each room if not for each person, and free application of water to the entire person, from head to foot, should be made every morning.

Early Rising—Breezes
Every person should rise early in Africa, as the air is then coolest, freshest, and purest; besides the effect upon the senses, the sight and song of the numerous birds to be seen and heard, produce a healthful influence upon the mental and physical system. The land and sea-breezes blow regularly and constantly from half-past three o’clock p.m. till half-past ten o’clock a.m., when there is a cessation of about five hours till half-past three again.[Pg 322]

Never Sultry
The evenings and mornings are always cool and pleasant, never sultry and oppressive with heat, as frequently in temperate climates during summer and autumn. This wise and beneficent arrangement of Divine Providence makes this country beautifully, in fact, delightfully pleasant; and I have no doubt but in a very few years, so soon as scientific black men, her own sons, who alone must be more interested in her development than any other take the matter in hand, and produce works upon the diseases, remedies, treatment, and sanitary measures of Africa, there will be no more contingency in going to Africa than any other known foreign country. I am certain, even now, that the native fever of Africa is not more trying upon the system, when properly treated, than the native fever of Canada, the Western and Southern States and Territories of the United States of America. –

Delany, Martin R. (1861). “OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE NIGER VALLEY EXPLORING PARTY.” New York, T. Hamilton;
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Leaving Cape-Coast Castle – noon, September 20th. I took a spoonful dilution of sulphate of quinine 3x daily. The trip resumes. . . . Bees! Ever busy on every blossom! . . . air being freighted with fragrance; laden with “tons of beeswax” carried on their heads.

Delany, Martin R. (1861). “OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE NIGER VALLEY EXPLORING PARTY.” New York, T. Hamilton.
“air being freighted with fragrance” from the flowers and aroma of the exuberant, rich, rank growth of vegetable matter. . . encountered many persons laden with “tons of beeswax” carried on their heads . . .bees are seen ever busy on every blossom, gathering their store, leaving laden with the rich delicacies of the blooming flowers
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Native Plants of Nigeria and Their Scientific Names
Rogon Daji – Ampelocissus africana
African White Mahogany – Turraeanthus africana
Purple Plume Grass – Bothriochloa bladhii
Thollon’s Strophanthus – Strophanthus thollonii
Nganda Coffee – Coffea canephora
West African Piassava Palm Raphia vinifera
Ube – Dacryodes edulis
Yohimbe Pausinystalia johimbe
Light Bosse – Guarea cedrata
African Corkwood Tree – Musanga cecropioides
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Martin Delany William Johnson – He saw hundreds of acres in unbroken tracts of Indian white corn. Every day some of the boys of all sizes may be seen dashing along a road or over a plain at fearful speed on horseback. They are great vaulters and ankle-springers. The houses are built of unburnt clay which hardens in the sun, covered with a beautiful thatch-long, peculiar grass. Great affection exists between husband and wife, the women being mostly restricted to household work, trading, gathering in the fields, and aiding in carrying, whilst the men principally do the digging, planting, chopping, and other hard work. The children are also passionately beloved.

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4:45 – Sona Jobarteh Band over images 42-49 to 5:22

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They are VERY active. And they Love Fun!

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The fine Bornou, known as the Arabian horse, is a native of Africa, and raised in great numbers. Delany visits Yorubaland and its markets. All through the Yoruba country the palm tree is cultivated, trimmed and pruned, and never cut down, except when very old. Palm nuts turned into a fragrant and deliciously rich oil are used both for light and cooking.

All through the Yoruba country the palm tree is cultivated, trimmed and pruned, and never cut down, except when very old. Palm nuts turned into a fragrant and deliciously rich oil are used both for light and cooking.

The history of the Yorubas: from the earliest times to the beginning of the British Protectorate by The Revd Samuel Johnson, d. 1901; Johnson, O. (Obadiah). first published in 1921 https://archive.org/details/historyofyorubas00john

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Powerful Oya songs (mother of changes) – Ministry of Miracles Healing School SB
Oyá is a fierce and powerful female warrior orisha in Santeria. She is the owner of the marketplace, and keeps the gates of the cemetery. She is the force of change in nature and in life. She wields lightning and rides the winds into battle, often fighting with her machetes side-by-side with her favorite lover, Changó. Oyá raises the armies of the dead as her soldiers and is said to use the tornado as her weapon. Oyá’s aché is fierce, tumultuous, changing and protective. youtube.com
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Oya: Owner of the Marketplace
The woman of the marketplace is also known for her abilities in the supplanting of power. Just as the tornado can pick up a house and deposit it miles away Oya can take power away from one and give it to another. enlightenmentandtransformation.com
www.enlightenmentandtransformation.com/2015/06/23/oya-2/

Oya in the Company of Saints – Judith Gleason
Journal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 68, No. 2 (Jun., 2000), pp. 265-291 (27 pages) Published By: Oxford University Press www.jstor.org/stable/1465923

The markets, large and small, are self-organized and well-run by a manager. Ilorin has five markets each at one of the city’s gates, and had as many as eight hundred sheep at one time. When approaching the city of Ibadan, I saw at a brook, where they had been let out of their cages or coops to drink and wash themselves and saw as many as three thousand pigeons and squabs going to the Ibadan market.

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English: pigeon chicks of 20+ days. Bangladesh.
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8:08 – Kalangu talking drum over images 76-84 to 9:09
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Delany and Johnson milled among the gleeful noisy thousands at Ilorin’s markets. In the afternoon, when the traffic had not fully set in, they would often go out and preach to the people under the trees. At the market, women from early morn ’till nine o’clock at night, sold their merchandise. As Martin browsed the market he heard in his heart a lyrical magic in the words being spoken around him. It was music. But these lyric, tumbling vowels had a heritage he did not know. It was a music but with an ancient heritage he did not yet know. What is the common heritage of the Yoruba spoken word . . . and . . . the “words of the Talking Drum”

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Delany wrote of the women of the marketplace: “They are very polite.” (sound of spoken Yoruba language)

“. .their language abounding in vowels, and consequently euphonious and agreeable—they are affable, sociable, and tractable, seeking information with readiness, and evincing willingness to be taught with high conceptions of the Supreme Being.” The Yoruba language abounds in vowels and is euphonious as Delany wrote because it is based on a tri-tonal scale and is mostly defined by the tri-tonic scale, as do the talking drums. The hour glass drum’s pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech to great complexity.

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It is little wonder that when an invader conquers a people in West Africa, the first thing they do is take away the talking drums and imprison their masters because detailed messages could be sent from one village to the next, faster than could be carried by a person riding a horse.

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13:06 – Sona Jobarteh & Band Kora from West Africa over images 128-139 to 13:50
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FOLLOW ME TO OYINGBO MARKET, LAGOS NIGERIA 2 | Flo Chinyere
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William Johnson, Delany’s guide, translator also waded thru the crowds translating Martin’s questions as Martin admired the mangrove, papayas, pineapples, keeping his parasol high to protect him from the brutal august sun and sipping lemonade made of water, lemon and a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. but he ate lightly. By dusk, it grew cooler, a new moon and the women of the market lit their palm oil lamps with the brilliance of stars on an inky black later to retire one by one leaving tomb-like darkness.

William and Martin placed their mats right on the ground in a wooded spot – they had only seen one leopard, three tarantulas and two snakes on the whole trip – Martin changed into clean clothes. They covered themslves with calico covers to rise before daybreak toresume thw final leg of their expedition to Abeokuta, where crowds would later gather and rejoice.

Martin rose, ate an orange, bathed from head to foot, walked out and breathed deeply the moist, cool morning air, had some coffee with cream and sweetener and off they went.

Delany and Johnson left again on October 30th for Abeokuta with its 100,000 people, and was met with great joy on November 5th. Princess Tinuba had already said she had more hope of a regeneration of Africa through Dr. Delany than ever before. She had promised to place the entire management of her extensive business – with her immediate household of about sixty persons, and constantly employing about three hundred and sixty persons bringing her palm-oil and ivory – in Dr. Delany’s hands, as much advantage was taken of her by foreigners.

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