Tabom People

Tabom People ( " Tabom People" or " Tabomvolk " ) are members of the Afro-Brazilian community in Accra, capital of Ghana, West Africa called. The Tabom are descendants of freed slaves from Brazil Portuguese Speaking. The name " Tabom " probably comes from the Portuguese salutation "Ta bom" (it is good), the response to the question "Como esta? " ( how are you? ) takes place.

History

The Tabom came in 1836 with the British ship SS Salisbury to Accra. It was about 70 people from seven families. The ship had brought from Lagos in the neighboring British colony in present-day Nigeria. It is not known whether they had already spent some time in Lagos and Brazil had left in the wake of the so-called Male revolt a year earlier. This " Male revolt " had been the bloodiest of a series of slave revolts in Brazil and mainly worn by Muslim slaves.

In response to this revolt several slaves had been deported from Brazil to Africa in order to reduce the risk of further uprisings. But reprisals in Brazil against free blacks (ie freed former slaves, or those who had bought free) also led to an exodus of these free black Brazilians to West Africa, particularly to Lagos, Porto Novo and Widdah in what is now Benin. There, the Afro-Brazilians made ​​whole " Brazilian Quarter " to Accra was compared to a small number.

The Tabom received from the ruler Nii Ankrah of the indigenous Ga with open arms. They were given land in underprivileged areas of the city, because they came not as poor people and also brought with them some practical skills as blacksmiths, goldsmiths, home builders or tailor that affected henceforth beneficial for Accra. For example, there were Tabom, 1854 opened the first commercial tailoring of the country and later the Ghanaian army furnished them with uniforms. The leader of the Tabom was a certain Nii Azumah Nelson, whose descendants today play an important role in the Tabom.

Traces of Tabom in the cityscape of Accra

In the Northridge neighborhood there is still a street called " Tabon Street". Many Tabom now live in the district of " Jamestown ", where there is also the first built and used by the Tabom house, the so-called "Brazil House" in the "Brazil Lane ".

The Tabom today

The Tabom still exist today as a group with its own sense of identity and cultural peculiarities. The current head of the Tabom is Nii Azumah the Fifth, a direct descendant of the aforementioned mythical leader of the first Tabomgruppe from the year 1836. Besides Islam many Tabom hang " brasilianisierten " gods of African origin to, such as the Shango the Yoruba exported from the territory of present-day Nigeria to Brazil and there changed frequently, the Tabom deities have " re-imported " to Africa. Despite this further existing identity the Tabom are today fully integrated into the Ghanaian society, no longer speak Portuguese and are considered part of the people of Ga.

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