Post by Gbola Oba (@gbolaoba)

https://youtu.be/Pmr8tk6gHSM?si=u-yaeUjKovKAnWxH

Watch the high-stakes coercion of Oba Dosunmu: blackmailed and threatened into ceding Lagos to the British Empire in 1861. It remains the definitive example of 'Gunboat Diplomacy'—where the choice wasn't between 'yes' or 'no,' but between surrender and total destruction.

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