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4 Bonny descended onto chaos, Jaja knew he couldn't win the fight so he made a smarter move, during the so called peace talk he quietly prepared to leave, when the moment was right he took his people ( that's like 14 of Bonny's 18 trading house) and they walked away. They travelled all the way to the East to the mouth of the Imo river and built a settlement, he called it OPOBO, it was named after an old Bonny king named Opbo the Great.
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Reality Check ✅: 5. On Christmas day in 1870, Jaja was crowded King JAJA of OPOBO. Within months Opobo took over the oil palm trade, by 1870 they were already exporting around 8,000 tons of oil per year straight to British buyers boycotting middle men. Bonny on the other hand lost everything, some said over a hundr...
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