The Gallinas people are an ethnic group in Liberia, which formerly existed as an independent chiefdom.
In 1868 and 1869, the Liberian government rated the chiefdoms of the Gbenmah and Gallinas.
In 1882, the king and chiefs of Gallinas ceded a piece of coastal territory to the British government.
Kings and chiefs of the Gallinas people
My Grand Father, His Majesty Chief Ambulai Lumeh was the grand Monarch of Soe-Gbenman Kingdom in the Gallinas 1890 to 1960s..He ascended to the Throne after he defeated the British troops that had come to take land in that kingdom...As a victory prize, The citizens of Soe-Gbenma crowned my Grand Father as their king and gave him a wife...My Grand mother Empress Musu Zokai....A relative of Ambassador Momolu Massaqoi, The first African Ambassador to Germany in 1890s.
They citizens appealed to my Grandfather to remain in their kingdom as a protector of their land and people...All the people in that kingdom took the name of my grandfather for their safety and security against any colonial subjugation.
This was the era in late 1800s, When the Europeans arrived in West Africa and began to violently dispossess the indigenous African people from their lands. The citizens of So-Gbenman called for my Grand father from abroad to come quickly and help them fight off the invading Europeans. And to bring lasting peace to that African kingdom...
As a relative of the King Sao Bosso of Lofa... My grand father was sent as an Ambassador of King Sao Bosso to solve the land conflict between the marauding white Europeans and the African people. King Sao Bosso was the Most respected Monarch in West Africa during his reign...He helped to stop the longstanding land conflict between the settlers and the natives, and brought lasting peace in 1847. There is a giant Bronze monument erected to commemorate this event..in honour of King Sao Bosso making peace between the Settlers and the natives. JJ Roberts Monument.
KINGS AND CHIEFES OF GALLINAS PEOPLE...
My grandfather is a descendant of a long line of West African Monarchs who ruled West Africa, with lineage to the Moors who ruled Britain as kings and Dukes during 1500 to 1700. They built majority of the large English Country mansions and Jacobean Palaces all over England Scotland, Wales and Ireland...
The black Monarchs include King Charles, his son Charles Lenor the Duke of Richmond 1543. Daniel the Black Earl of Ranelagh,he built more large country houses with elaborate gardens all over England, than anyone else did. He was pay master of the war during the reign of King Charles..After the reign of king Charles.....Earl of Raneleagh's Country Houses were seized, .Properties like Mulberry House and Penn House, and many others. These large country houses were seized by the following Queen and given to Lord Fox as gift, and Lord Howe as Lord Howes wife Sara's pay for looking after the Royal Children ..The king gave away those houses to his employees as gifts.
Black man Lord Gadopane, The Lord High Treasurer of England 1534, his parents came from Gallinas...Also The Duchess of Porthmouth, the wife of King Charles was a back woman...She was the mother of Charles Lenor, the Black Duke of Richmond 1536... Most of this history can be proven by books such as the Memoires of John Macky Esq, ..And other books such as Scottish National Registrar of 1500s. Among many other books.
For example, Lord Stanhope (Sando) The king's Ambassador to Sweden was also a black man....Lord Admiral Edward Montaque, the first Duke of Sandwich, Kent, a Member of parliament, and he was later British Ambassador to Spain...All these people are black Africans, who are descendants from the Gallinas in West Africa. And direct Ancestors of my Grand father.
Many other famous African people have teir roots in the Gallinas.. People like Booker T. Washington..( His Mende name is Boakai Talliah). Dr. Martin Luther King, his African grand parents were raised by Missionaries who lived in the Gallinas in 1800s.
KINGS AND CHEIFES OF GALLINAS PEOPLE...
The land of the Gallinas was dissolve by Britain in 1850. and the inhabitants were dissolved into the new colonies that Britain carved out in West Africa.
Andy Lumeh Charismatic Author Evangelist. The Author of the Article has a Diploma in Politics and the Environment from University of Oxford.
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