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Press Release on the Transatlantic Slavery
THE YORUBA PARTY IN THE UK (YPUK)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (14 May 2026)
In a resolution adopted on 26 March 2006, UNGA codified the Transatlantic Slavery as
the ‘gravest crime against humanity’. This meant two things: first, that the slavery was a
forever crime and second, a crime for which compensation was available.
The Transatlantic Slavery made victims too of those who evaded capture during the
slave raids on Yorubaland (the Escapees). These people suWered trauma of the acts of
escape that they often had to repeat time and time again, witnessing the powerlessness
and savage ill-treatment of captured relatives and kins, wanton destruction of their
towns, villages and farms, indiscriminate slaughter of their relatives and kins, sudden
disruption of their communities, families and religious life, forced internal
displacements and migrations, and end to the civilisation they once knew and
cherished. Descendants of the Escapees have inherited the after eWects of this trauma.
Defined by the ‘ancestry’ laws of Nigeria, a Descendant, and individual entitled to seek
compensation, was a person whose parent was Yoruba and had been born in
Yorubaland and whose grandparent was Yoruba and had been born in Yorubaland.
Conducted over 400 years, extracting some 5 million Yoruba slaves, it is more likely than
not that slave raiding for the Transatlantic Slavery aWected all corners of the Yorubaland.
This barbarity of the Transatlantic Slavery was supported, regulated, and defended by
the British Crown and Parliament, making it a state-sponsored economic enterprise.
The British parliament enacted more than 100 legislations supporting and protecting
the Transatlantic Slavery. British royalty, politicians, banks, insurance companies, the
church, and other institutions had business interests in the plantations, and slaverelated
trading companies. In the early stages of the Transatlantic Slavery, the British
government granted charters to slave merchants including the Company of Royal
Adventurers of England Trading with Africa, the largest single British company involved
in the Transatlantic Slavery. The ships of the Company enjoyed the protection of the
Royal Navy. The British judiciary provided cover for slave merchants against loss at sea
of their human cargo. By the turn of the 19th century, the slave plantation economy was
so enormous that it made Britain the most powerful economic force on Earth. Profits
from the Transatlantic Slavery was evident throughout Britain, financing banks,
including the Bank of England, and notable buildings, including the West India Docks in
London. It is therefore right and proper for Descendants of the Escapees to seek
compensation from Britain.
We are launching a compensation claim in the British High Court for individual
members of the Yoruba Party in the UK. Compensation could be worth millions of
pounds to each individual. All it would cost you is a membership fee of £60 a year; join
at www.yorubapartyuk.org – you have to be in it, to win it!

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OUT OF THE TOP 5 RICHEST BUSINESSMEN IN AFRICA, THERE ARE TWO YORÙBÁ' (ADÉNÚGÀ AND ỌTẸDỌLÁ).

There are 3 Yorubas in the richest businesswomen in Africa (Alakija, Mo Abudu, and Shagaya.

The richest Nigerian in America is Yoruba (Tope Awotona).

The richest Nigerian in United Kingdom is Yoruba (Adebayo Ogunlesi).

The richest musician in Nigeria are Yoruba (Wizkid, Burna Boy (Yoruba mother and trained and grew up in Yoruba land), and then Davido).

The richest and the most successful boxer in Nigeria and Africa is Yoruba (Anthony Joshua).

The richest MMA Fighter in Nigeria is Yoruba (Israel Adesanya).

The richest and the most successful female footballer in Africa is Yoruba (Assisat Oshoala).

The richest and the most successful Olympic athlete in Africa is Yoruba (Tobi Amusan).

The richest and the most successful Table Tennis player in Nigeria and Africa is Yoruba (Aruna Quadri).

The richest and the most successful wrestlers in Nigeria are Yoruba (Oba Femi and Omoh).

The richest and most successful basketballer in Nigeria and Africa is Yoruba (Hakeem Olajuwon).

The richest and the most successful Long Tennis player in Nigeria and Africa is Yoruba (Oluwadare Hephzibah).

The richest king in Nigeria is Yoruba (Obateru of Ugbo land, Ilaje, Ondo State).

The richest Pastor in Nigeria and Africa is Yoruba (Bishop Oyedepo).

The first black female football club owner in Europe is Yoruba (Eni Aluko).

The first male Nigerian football club owner in Europe is Yoruba (Kunle Soname).

The richest politician in Nigeria is Yoruba (Bola Tinubu).

The richest actress in Nigeria is Yoruba (Funke Akindele).

The highest grossing movies in Nigeria are Yoruba movies (Tribe call Judah, Jenifa, Omo Ghetto, etc).

The most watched Nigerian movie on Netflix is a Yoruba movie (Jagun-Jagun and House of Ga).

The first African to be nominated for Grammy is Yoruba (King Sunny Ade).

The first Nigerian to win Grammy is Yoruba (Sade Adu).

God bless Yorùbá Nation (Àṣẹ 🙏).

PETITION UPDATE!!!

*SELF-DETERMINATION FOR THE YORÙBÁ PEOPLE OF NIGERIA*

KEMI BADENOCK AND BRITAIN'S UN VOTE ON REPARATION FOR SLAVERY

©️Olusola Oni
Leicester, United Kingdom

Apr 2, 2026

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Dear Mrs Badenoch,

I write to you in my capacity as leader of the Yoruba Party in the UK. I understand that you were critical of Britain abstaining and not voting against the UNGA resolution on Reparation for Slavery, which was passed by majority vote on 17 March 2026. I understand also that it is your position that Britain should pay no reparation for the slavery because Britain assisted in bringing it to an end. Your position is akin to saying that a thief should face no sanctions just because he repented. That is not how the world works. There is no jurisdiction where repentance exempted the perpetrator from civil responsibility. Even the thief on the cross acknowledged that he was getting what he deserved. In our view, repentance can only be validated through providing restitution to those who were harmed.

Under Britain’s domestic laws, a guilty party could not unilaterally determine whether he should pay compensation, and what amount. Those are matters for the courts. The courts are assisted in this case in particular by the fact that in 1833, Britain accepted civil liability for the Transatlantic Slavery, and paid £20 million to 47,000 slave owners in compensation, £30 billion in today’s money; that is the compensation figure that we at the Yoruba party have in mind for the loss of over 5 million of our people to the Transatlantic Slavery. It is our duty as heirs to the Yoruba legacy to fight for compensation for the deprivation inflicted on Yorubaland over the 400 years of slavery, mostly by Britain.

The loss of so many million Yoruba to the development of the Yorubaland is incalculable. Nathan Nunn (in ‘Understanding the long-run effects of Africa’s slave trades’ VoxEU eBook; 2017) summarised data from a series of studies that he and his colleagues had conducted on the matter over the years. They found as follows:

The transatlantic slavery had negative impact on African societies and led to the long-term impoverishment of West Africa. In the 1800s, Africa’s population was half of what it would have been but for the transatlantic slavery. Pervasive insecurity and violence associated with the transatlantic slavery re****ed institutional, social and economic development. The countries from where most slaves were taken became the poorest on the continent. The parts of Africa that was the most developed, such as Yorubaland, yielded the largest number of slaves.

But for the transatlantic slavery, 75% of the income gap between Africa and other developing nations would not exist; Africa would have a similar level of development as Asia or Latin America. Much of Africa’s poor performance today could be explained by the 400 years of slave raiding. Slavery did not just remove people, it fundamentally altered the fabric of society. Slave raiding led to the collapse of cities and communities as well as ethnic fragmentation. The Transatlantic Slavery resulted in substantial deterioration in local, ethnic, legal and political institutions and governance.

The transatlantic slavery created the conditions that enabled subsequent European colonisation of Africa.

Something profound and permanent occurred at the UNGA on 17 March 2026. The majority of the countries of the world, 123 of them, agreed to establish a new international law – the Slavery Reparation Law. The new law accords with the letter or spirit of Article 38(a) of the ICJ Statute. On 17 March 2026, the matter of reparation for slavery transferred from the political arena to the legal (judicial) arena. It had not been possible to litigate this matter until now that 123 countries have designated the Transatlantic Slavery a crime against humanity, a crime that time legally could not pardon. It thus is redundant whether Britain abstained or voted against.

Respectfully yours,

Baasegun (Dr) Olusola OnI

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