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Trade Me is New Zealand's largest online auction and classifieds website. Managed by Trade Me Ltd., the site was founded in 1999 by New Zealand entrepreneur Sam Morgan, who sold it to Fairfax in 2006 for NZ$700 million. [1] Trade Me was publicly listed as a separate entity on 13 December 2011 under the ticker "TME".
Joseph Auga Matamata [1] (born 1953 or 1954) is a New Zealand-based Samoan chief and slave trader. [2] He is the first person in New Zealand to be convicted of using someone as a slave, and the first to be charged with both human trafficking and slavery. [2] [3] [4] The offences were committed between 1994 and 2019, and involved 13 people.
Matamata Intermediate is the town's co-educational state intermediate school, [34] [35] with a roll of 432. [36] There are two co-educational state primary schools: Matamata Primary School, [37] [38] with a roll of 506; [39] and Firth School, [40] with a roll of 231. [41] The motto for Firth School is E Tipu E Rea, which translates as Grow and ...
From 1400 onward, the Oyo Empire's imperial success made the Yoruba language a lingua franca almost to the shores of the Volta. [4] [5] Toward the end of the 18th century, the Oyo army was neglected as there was less need to conquer.
The Kiriji War, also known as the Ekiti–Parapo War, was a 16-year-long civil war between the subethnic kingdoms of the Yoruba people, specifically divided between the Western Yoruba, which was mainly the Ibadan and Oyo-speaking Yorubas, and the Eastern Yoruba, who were the Ekiti people, Ijesha, Ijebu people, and others.
High status Yoruba man, Ibadan (Carl Arriens, pencil sketch, 1910) Ibadan (1850–1900) was a military state in Yorubaland , West Africa. Starting as a war-camp it grew to become the capital of an empire, a transformation which required a very large number of slaves, which it obtained by warfare and raiding expeditions.
LGA Ward Polling Unit Name Atakumosa East: Iwara: Town Hall Iwara; Unity Pry. School, Iwara; L.A. School, Iwikun; Methodist Pry. School, Ayetoro; L.A. Pry. School ...
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on Forced labour and slavery Contemporary ...