KING KOKO Of NEMBE: The Unconquered Legend Oil Battle

In the creeks of Nigeria's Niger Delta, a kingdom is slowly being strangled. The year is the 1880s. The Royal Niger Company, a British trading giant backed by royal charter, has seized control of the palm oil trade that the Nembe people have depended on for generations. Their boats patrol the waterways with guns, their agents fix the prices, their ships block the routes to the interior villages, leaving fishermen, traders, mothers, and children... Protest letters are written, diplomatic meetings are held and more appeals are sent to the British Consul... Into this crisis steps King Frederick William Koko, a man of contradictions and conviction. Born into royalty, raised in faith, educated through the very missionaries whose nation was crushing his people. Koko is no ordinary king; he is a Christian who chooses war, a diplomat who chooses defiance, a ruler who gives up everything he loves, including his faith, to protect the people he loves more. On January 29, 1895, King Koko led over a thousand warriors in thirty-one war canoes through a moonless, fog-wrapped night to launch the most audacious act of resistance in Niger Delta history, The Akassa Raid, and in one decisive dawn... What follows is a story of retribution, betrayal, impossible choices, and unbreakable resolve. The British launch their counterattack... a kingdom is brought to its knees; yet its king refuses to kneel. King Koko of Nembe is more than the story of a raid. It is the story of a man who understood that the true battle was about who had the right to control the resources of a people's land and whether those people would ever be free. Told with the warmth of oral tradition, grounded in firsthand historical accounts, and framed through the eyes of a storyteller uncovering truth for a new generation. This is a book for everyone who loves heroic historical stories. Get your copy right away.

Pagina's: 152, Paperback, Independently published