Kingdom of Koya
Kingdom of Koya | |||||||||||||
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| 1450–1898 1990–Present | |||||||||||||
| Status | State union | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Robertsport | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | English | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Budhism Protestant, later also Christianity and islam | ||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||
• 1450-1515 (first king) | King Niger(Portaguese translation) King Negro | ||||||||||||
• 1618–1668 (signed King James agreement to the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the American colonies)[1] | King Eliab Bai ll (from Kpelle King of Koya) | ||||||||||||
• 1840–1870 | King Moribu Kindo Bai (from AfricanAmericans King of Koya) | ||||||||||||
• 1999–present (absolute monarchy within Liberia) | King Fondren Bai ll[2] | ||||||||||||
| Legislature | Federal republic of Liberia[3][4] | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1450 | ||||||||||||
• Sold Western Kingdom of Koya (Sierra leon) | 1775 | ||||||||||||
• Federal republic of Liberia colony | 1868 | ||||||||||||
• ended | 1898 | ||||||||||||
• Reestablished | 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Present | |||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||
| 2019[5] | 5,162 km2 (1,993 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
• 2019[5] | 200,000 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | |||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Grand Cape Mount County | ||||||||||||
The Republic of The Kingdom of Koya is a monarchy history founded on the information given by historical documents[6]
Kingdom of Koya is a subnational kingdom within Liberia. The kingdom of Koya is the African American ethnic group monarchy, Kingdom of Koya is the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Liberia, comprising all of the Grand Cape Mount county.
The Kingdom of Kquoja or Koya or Koya Temne, or the Temne Kingdom (1505–1896), was a pre-colonial African state in the north of present-day Sierra Leone. Its capital was at Cape Mount in what is now modern Liberia.
The kingdom was founded by the Temne ethnic group in or around 1505 by migrants from the north, seeking trade with the coastal Portuguese in the south.
The kingdom was ruled by a king called a Bai or Obai. The sub-kingdoms within the state were ruled by nobles titled "Gbana". The Koya Kingdom kept and maintained diplomatic relations with the British and French in the 18th century. Children of Temne nobles were allowed to seek western educations abroad. Koya also traded with Islamic states to its north and had Muslims within its borders.
Under Nembanga's reign (1775–1793), the Koya kingdom signed a treaty, which made it possible for the establishment of a British colony on the peninsula of Sierra Leone in 1788.
Koya participated in the trans-atlantic slave trade, though sources state that such commerce was much more privatized than in other kingdoms. Subjects of Koya traded in slaves on the coast even against the wishes of the state at times.
From 1801 to 1807, Koya fought a war with British colonists and the Susu. Koya lost the northern shoreline of Sierra Leone to the British and Port Loko to the Susu. However, they remained a power in the region. In 1815, the Temne fought another war with the Susu and regained the port. In 1841, the Temne defeated the Loko tribe of Kasona on the Mabaole River dispersing many of the people. In response to a British bombardment, the kingdom expelled the Church Missionary Society missionaries operating at Magbela in 1860.
The kingdom became a British protectorate August 31, 1896 after which the Koya kings lost virtually all power. Revolts of the Temne and Mende in 1898 were fierce but futile. The British would govern the area of the former kingdom until 1961.
History
In the early 1400s chief Kamakazi lead an expedition to India were he maryed a girl apart of the Koya tribe of south India, her name was Koya she brought with her 5000 members of her society (chiefdom) back to the Temne territories she taught chief Kamakazi teachings of the Buddha.
In 1450 Chief Kamakazi sign the agreement to the Portuguese-trans-Atlantic slave trade.
In 1450 Chief Kamakazi anointed his son Niger as King of the Temne Kingdom.
In 1451 the 3000 Temne-Koya people lead an expedition to the Caribbean and settled on Trinidad and Tobago.
In 1452 King Niger named the monarchy after his mother Koya Bai, Kingdom of Koya
He later conquer over the Ashanti Kingdom, the Shonghai empire, the Benin Kingdom and the nubian the Shonghai empire and Benin Kingdom later named there country after King him Nigeria and Niger republic also the river was named Niger.
The Portuguese translated the monarch Niger name as negro, and called all the slaves they bought negro slaves.
The Niger-Congo empire was the most ferrosiuos empire in Africa, after King Niger defeated the Nubians he lead the Portuguese to the Bantu Portuguese speakers which later became known as Angola.
In 1556 Kingdom of Koya people settled on Caribbean islands such as Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Granada the Grenadines, and Barbados.
In 1618 King Elib Bai ll from Kpelle King of Koya sign King James agreement to the Trans- Atlantic slave trade to the 13 colony's in America.
In 1775 King Naimbanna ll sold Sierra leon to King George lll the Temne traded with the African Americans Freetown.
In 1822 James Monroe the 5th. President of the United States started an American colonization society for AfricanAmericans can have a better chance for freedom and Liberty they traded with Kpelle in the town named Monrovia.
In 1835 Moribu Kindo Bai born in Brooklyn New York became general of the Kingdom of Koya.
In 1840 King Kama died and gave the crown to Moribu Kindo Bai and he marked his crowned daughter from Kpelle Queen of Koya.
In 1847 the Kingdom of Koya held a presidential election the Senate voted Joseph Robert's to be president in the same year he founded the Republican party (Liberia) Joseph Robert's gained independence from America and named his new country after a British Sierra leon flag that read Britannia auspices liber the Kingdom of Koya held a presidential election the Senate voted Joseph Robert's to be president in the same year he founded the Republican party (Liberia)
In 1861 Henry Rey the commander of the Kingdom of Koya armed forces rebelled against King Alexander son of Moribu Kindo Bai Prince Kanta Bai from African Americans Prince of Koya fought in the American civil war Louisiana was the state were a negro can be the negro slave master, Henry Rey formed the 1st. Louisiana Native Guard (csa) Confederate state army during the American civil war just to keep shipping black French speaking slaves to Louisiana state.
In 1862 the 1st. Louisiana Native Guard was defeated.
In 1868 King Alexander sign the president of Liberia Daniel Warner agreement for the Grand Cape Mount to become a county apart of the Liberian legislature.
In 1895 The African Americans and Temne didn't reach an agreement on hut tax in Sierra leon the African Americans gave the British authority to oppose taxes heavy fighting broke out in the Koyan castle was destroyed the AfricanAmerican Rulers was defeated and some retreated to Monrovia.
In 1898 the British empire defeated the Temne separatist in Sierra leon, this was known as the hut tax war.
In around 1906 Prince Kanta Bai [7] had a son by his wife Princess Elika Bai in Mississippi named Sammy Moore he was the only survivor out of the AfricanAmericans royal family.
In 1990 the crowned Prince was born Wayne Fondren from Los Angeles King of Koya
King Fondren Bai ll Biography
Wayne Fondren as King Fondren Bai ll is the crowned prince of Kingdom of Koya monarchy.[8]
Sources
- Cape Mount County
- King Fondren Bai ll National Forest
- Worldstatesmen
- Sierra Leonean Heroes
- Wars of the World
- Adam Jones, "The Kquoja Kingdom: A Forest State in Seventeenth Century West Africa," Paideuma 29 (1983): 23-43.
References
- ↑ "Kingdom of Koya Chapter 2".
- ↑ "Mary Jimenez". GrandCapeMount.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ↑ "King Fondren Bai ll". Republican Party (Liberia). Archived from the original on 2019-05-29. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
- ↑ Fredereck douglas,. end to all slavery: The Years of slavery and kingdom of Koya for Africa's freedom. Free Press, 1990.
- ↑ statistics of Grand Cape Mount https://gadm.org/maps/LBR/grandcapemount.html
- ↑ Liberia History book. ISBN 9781389457456. Search this book on
- ↑ Kingdom of Koya (1st ed.). Wayne Fondren. ISBN 109508979X. Search this book on
- ↑ "King Fondren Bai ll as a HipHop/pop artist". King Fondren Bai ll.
King Fondren Bai ll LIVE SPEECH
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