Ajele Cemetery

Ajele Cemetery
Wuri
Coordinates	6°27′05″N 3°23′39″E / 6.4515°N 3.3942°E

Makabartar Ajele wata babbar makabarta ce a tsibirin Legas da gwamnatin sojan jihar Legas karkashin Brigadier Mobolaji Johnson ta rushe a shekarun 1970.^[1] Ajele a harshen Yarbanci yana nufin jami'in gudanarwa na gwamnati kuma an sanya sunan makabartar ne saboda yawancin jami'an mulkin mallaka na Burtaniya da aka binne a wurin.

Rushewa

Birgediya Mobolaji Johnson, gwamnan soji na jihar Legas ya rusa makabartar Ajele a watan Disamba 1971 domin ya zama sakatariyar jihar Legas.^[2] Rushewar ya fuskanci suka da yawa kuma masana tarihi da masu sharhi da yawa sun lura da asarar tarihi mai mahimmanci. Farfesa JDY Peel ya lura cewa rushewar ya hana "'yan Legas ba kawai wani wuri mai daraja a cikin tsakiyar birnin ba amma na tunawa da kakanninsu".^[3] Wanda ya lashe kyautar Nobel Wole Soyinka ya kira rushewar "cin zarafin da aka yi wa wannan wuri na kakanni" yana mai cewa "umarni ya fito ne daga gwamnan soja: 'Ka tono matattu da kakannin da aka manta da su, ka dasa ginin majalisa na zamani-tare da duk abubuwan da suka dace a wannan wuri mai ban tsoro".^[4]^[5]

Sanannun binnewa

James Pinson Labulo Davies
Samuel Ajayi Crowther
Consul Benjamin Campbell
Alkalin kotun Josiah Gerard
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Manazarta

↑ J. D. Fage; Richard Gray; Roland Anthony Oliver (1975). The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 4. Cambridge University Press. pp. 231. ISBN 978-0521204132
↑ Smith, Robert (1979). The Lagos Consulate, 1851– 1861. University of California Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0520037465
↑ Elebute, Adeyemo (2013). The Life of James Pinson Labulo Davies: A Colossus of Victorian Lagos. Kachifo Limited/Prestige. pp. Foreword–xvi. ISBN 978-9785205763
↑ Godwin & Hopwood (2012). Sandbank City: Lagos At 150. Kachifo Ltd (2012). p. 155. ISBN 978-9785108460
↑ "Mobolaji Johnson, A Former Governor-General PassesM". THISDAYLIVE. 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2020-12-19.

[1] J. D. Fage; Richard Gray; Roland Anthony Oliver (1975). The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 4. Cambridge University Press. pp. 231. ISBN 978-0521204132

[2] Smith, Robert (1979). The Lagos Consulate, 1851– 1861. University of California Press. p. 167. ISBN 978-0520037465

[3] Elebute, Adeyemo (2013). The Life of James Pinson Labulo Davies: A Colossus of Victorian Lagos. Kachifo Limited/Prestige. pp. Foreword–xvi. ISBN 978-9785205763

[4] Godwin & Hopwood (2012). Sandbank City: Lagos At 150. Kachifo Ltd (2012). p. 155. ISBN 978-9785108460

[5] "Mobolaji Johnson, A Former Governor-General PassesM". THISDAYLIVE. 2019-11-03. Retrieved 2020-12-19.

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