{"id":2589431,"date":"2026-04-10T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/african-descendant-claims-british-threatened-her-ancestor-then-learns-he-was-a-slaver-trying-to-keep-brits-from-ending-slavery-in-city-he-ruled\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:02:41","slug":"african-descendant-claims-british-threatened-her-ancestor-then-learns-he-was-a-slaver-trying-to-keep-brits-from-ending-slavery-in-city-he-ruled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/african-descendant-claims-british-threatened-her-ancestor-then-learns-he-was-a-slaver-trying-to-keep-brits-from-ending-slavery-in-city-he-ruled\/","title":{"rendered":"African Descendant Claims British Threatened Her Ancestor, Then Learns He Was a Slaver Trying to Keep Brits from Ending Slavery in City He Ruled"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafrican-descendant-claims-british-threatened-her-ancestor-then-learns-he-was-a-slaver-trying-to-keep-brits-from-ending-slavery-in-city-he-ruled%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2589431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The piece profiles Antoinette Fernandez, a Green Party candidate in the 2024 UK general election for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, who finished second with about 23% of the vote behind Labour.<\/p>\n<p>Key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fernandez&#8217;s campaign focused on NHS funding, restoring the Health Secretary\u2019s duty to provide healthcare, and ending outsourcing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article discusses a social media post in which Fernandez claimed a genealogical link to the Oba (king) of Lagos and to events surrounding Lagos\u2019s history; it notes several factual errors in the post and cites community notes and a Royal Marines source to challenge the timeline (Lagos annexation occurred in 1861, while the referenced events were in 1851).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It describes Fernandez\u2019s post and it&#8217;s correction as part of a broader debate about her political narrative,while also noting a by-election win for the Green Party in Gorton and Denton that the piece attributes to identity-based campaigning,including Urdu-language campaign materials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The piece cites Ipsos polling suggesting Reform UK could lead if a general election were held soon, with the Greens tied for third and Labour faring poorly in comparison, framing a shifting UK political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It argues that the Green Party has increasingly pursued identity-based appeals and suggests such strategy could boost its electoral prospects, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-walks-out-to-hail-to-the-chief-in-apparent-mistake-at-college-rally\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris mistakenly walks out to &#039;Hail to the Chief&#039; at college rally.\">potential future role<\/a> for Fernandez in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article also provides past context about British involvement in Nigeria and discusses broader critiques of how history and colonialism are leveraged in contemporary political debates.<\/p>\n<p>In short, the article presents Fernandez as a rising Green candidate whose platform contrasts with a broader, controversial narrative about the Greens\u2019 electoral strategy and the UK\u2019s political realignment, amid debates over historical accuracy and identity politics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Normally, we shouldn&rsquo;t have to care about &#7884;m&#7885;ba Antoinette Oy&iacute;nk&aacute;ns&#7885;&#769;l&aacute; Fernandez, better known as Antoinette Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Her major claim to fame was that she was the Green Party candidate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/actor-michael-caine-opposes-leftist-labor-party-calls-new-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 United Kingdom General Election<\/a> for the parliamentary seat in Hackney North and Stoke Newington. She finished <a href=\"https:\/\/members.parliament.uk\/constituency\/4074\/election\/422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second<\/a>, with 23 percent of the vote to 60 percent for the Labour Party candidate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Green Party candidate Antoinette Fernandez takes the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHSPledge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NHSPledge<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a4antoinette?\">@a4antoinette<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If elected, she will fight for:<br \/> &#9989;proper NHS funding<br \/> &#9989;reinstatement of the Health Secretary&rsquo;s duty to provide healthcare, &amp;<br \/> &#9989;an end to outsourcing<\/p>\n<p>  your candidates<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5EJkUkCoEd\">https:\/\/t.co\/5EJkUkCoEd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hTplIrqoIc\">pic.twitter.com\/hTplIrqoIc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Own It (@We_OwnIt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/We_OwnIt\/status\/1797953948244164816?\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, the Green Party &mdash; which has become a radical identitarian party that panders to the worst elements of Britain&rsquo;s Islamic community &mdash; has seen a dramatic rise in its fortunes in the past few years, including winning a by-election in February that augurs poorly for Labour going forward. Fernandez, therefore, has a good chance of becoming a member of the U.K. Parliament in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Second, Fernandez is profoundly ignorant and is willing to use that ignorance as a cudgel to make you think that she&rsquo;s owed deference because of Britain&rsquo;s colonial past. She is of Nigerian descent, and as she claims, her <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uncle-tim-trends-on-twitter-after-tim-scotts-rebuttal-to-bidens-sotu-address\/\" title=\"\u2018Uncle Tim\u2019 Trends On Twitter After Tim Scott\u2019s Rebuttal To Biden\u2019s SOTU Address\">great-great-grandfather<\/a> &#038;mdash<\/a>; a king &mdash; was overthrown by the Brits to avoid his people being massacred.<\/p>\n<p>Just one problem, as users on social media pointed out: If her story is true, the British Navy overthrew her great-great-grandfather to <em>stop<\/em> the slave trade, which he was facilitating.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about an unforced error.<\/p>\n<p>So first the post, which was made a little under two years ago, but only got attention now. In it, Fernandez quote-posted a thread about the British annexation of Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria, in 1861.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My great, great maternal grandfather was the Oba (king) of Lagos in 1861 and was forced &mdash; under threat of military bombardment &mdash; aka to avoid a massacre of the people &mdash; to cede Lagos over to the British,&rdquo; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Lest we forget.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Well, there are several errors in there, starting with the fact that the taking of Lagos happened in&nbsp;<em>1851&nbsp;<\/em>&mdash; but those keys are right next to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Not next to each other are the keys &ldquo;forced &mdash; under threat of military bombardment &mdash; aka to avoid a massacre of the people&rdquo; and &ldquo;forced to cede Lagos because it was an epicenter of the African slave trade and the king (or &lsquo;oba,&rsquo; if you prefer) was involved in it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Thank heavens for community notes, which began popping up earlier this week:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez deleted the August 2024 post on Friday morning U.K. time, and indeed hasn&rsquo;t posted anything from her X account, period, since 2025. However, a bit of background from the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalmarineshistory.com\/post\/taking-of-lagos-war-on-the-slave-trade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Marines History<\/a>, which describes the battle in which the king was deposed following a Dec. 26, 1851, battle.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The battle of December 26, 1851 was termed by Lagosians Ogun Ahoyaya\/Ogun Agidingbi (translated, &ldquo;The Boiling Battle&rdquo;). Captain Jones led the attack party consisting HMS Bloodhound, HMS Teaser, a flotilla of boats including The Victoria and The Harlequin equipped with overwhelming fire power engaged Kosoko in a battle lasting three days. <\/em><br \/> <em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><br \/> <em>Kosoko put up a stiff resistance, but the Royal Navy&rsquo;s superior firepower won the day. [Oba] Kosoko and his leading chiefs fled Lagos for Epe on December 28, 1851. According to Samuel Davies, a Saro and younger brother of JPL Davies who participated on the British side aboard HMS Bloodhound, Kosoko would have inflicted great losses on the Royal Navy if he had deployed his war canoes with their swivel guns. &hellip;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>  The power of the Royal Navy was subsequently used to suppress the slave trade, and while some illegal trade, mostly with Brazil, continued, the Atlantic slave trade would be eradicated by the middle of the 19th century.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&rsquo;s not a good look. It&rsquo;s worth noting that the official annexation of Lagos by the British occurred in 1861, but the overthrow of her beloved oba, who was behind shipping slaves to the Americas and elsewhere, happened 10 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Why should this make a difference, aside from the fact that it&rsquo;s a grimly humorous self-own?<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&rsquo;t have time to pay attention to the politics of dear ol&rsquo; Blighty while keeping track of our own, the U.K.&rsquo;s system is undergoing a seismic upheaval at the moment. Since the World War II coalition government, the leader of the ruling coalition has either been a member of the Labour or Conservative party, the latter colloquially known as the &ldquo;tories.&rdquo; They function much as the Democrats or Republicans do in the United States &mdash; and even though there are a greater number of third parties who manage to make it into Parliament, they usually function as small members of the larger coalitions ruled by the left- or right-wing parties.<\/p>\n<p>However, a succession of failed Labour and Conservative governments has soured the Brits on their two major parties, particularly on immigration (for the right) and support for Israel (on the left). A March Ipsos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/en-uk\/uk-opinion-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a> found that if a general election were held today, conservative alternative party Reform U.K., led by Nigel Farage, would get 28 percent of the vote, first place. The Greens are tied for third with 17 percent, and only four points behind Labour, their main rival.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the &ldquo;green&rdquo; in Green Party isn&rsquo;t ecological anymore so much as it is Islamist. When Hannah Spencer won that aforementioned by-election in Gorton and Denton in February, with more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr453rvy6kvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 percent<\/a> of the vote, she did it by pandering to the Islamic community there &mdash; releasing campaign advertisements in Urdu, a language related to Hindi but mostly spoken by Muslims, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25887500.greens-anger-reform-urdu-ad-gorton-denton-by-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.K. National<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gorton &amp; Denton&rsquo;s new Green Party video is entirely in Urdu and features some blatant visuals. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7QkslQEHL2\">pic.twitter.com\/7QkslQEHL2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GuidoFawkes\/status\/2025936091652501524?\">February 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of racial- and ethnic-identity struggle sessions that the Green Party hopes will win it votes the next time a major general election comes around. And you know what? They&rsquo;re probably right.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, expect to hear quite a bit about the perfidies visited by the Brits on &#7884;m&#7885;ba Antoinette Oy&iacute;nk&aacute;ns&#7885;&#769;l&aacute; Fernandez&rsquo;s great-great-grandfather, without any mention of the perfidies he visited on his own people, more than a few times in the House of Commons. We&rsquo;ll get told the Brits were the ones behind the slave trade, without any talk of them ending it. 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It portrays the Green Party as having shifted toward radical identitarian politics and criticizes Fernandez\u2019s background claims as part of that critique.<br \/>\n&#8211; The article questions the accuracy of Fernandez\u2019s family story about a Lagos king and Britain\u2019s role in the region, noting historical dates (Lagos\u2019 takeover and the slave-trade era) and pointing to community-sourced corrections.<br \/>\n&#8211; It situates Fernandez within broader UK political trends, arguing that Greens rely on identity-based appeals (including to Muslim communities) and suggesting the media will largely overlook Britain\u2019s own past in the slave trade while focusing on Fernandez\u2019s ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>Longer paraphrase<br \/>\n&#8211; The essay profiles Antoinette Fernandez, a Green Party candidate in the 2024 UK general election for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, who finished second with about 23% of the vote to the Labour candidate\u2019s 60%.<br \/>\n&#8211; It asserts that the Green Party has become a radical identitarian movement that panders to elements of Britain\u2019s Islamic community, and it notes Fernandez\u2019s rising profile in recent years as part of that shift.<br \/>\n&#8211; The piece highlights a social media post about health funding and the NHS, and then pivots to Fernandez\u2019s background, noting her Nigerian descent and her claim that her great-great-grandfather was a Lagos king who was overthrown by the British to prevent a massacre.<br \/>\n&#8211; It points out problems with that claim: a social-media correction shows inconsistencies, such as the timing of Lagos events (the overthrow allegedly occurring in 1851, while annexation by Britain happened in 1861), and it mentions community notes that began surfacing to challenge the narrative.<br \/>\n&#8211; The article provides some historical detail about the Lagos conflict and the Royal Navy\u2019s role, but it uses these details to argue that Fernandez\u2019s family story contains inaccuracies and that the broader narrative is a \u201cgrim\u201d self-own.<br \/>\n&#8211; It then broadens to describe the UK political landscape, noting that after World War II the major parties (Labour and Conservative) have alternated governing coalitions, and that polls suggest Reform UK could gain ground while the Green Party remains competitive-though the author emphasizes a shift toward identity politics (and even references Urdu-language campaign material in a by-election as evidence of pandering).<br \/>\n&#8211; The writer suggests that the Greens\u2019 emphasis on racial and ethnic identity could influence future elections and predicts continued focus on Fernandez\u2019s ancestry in Parliament debates, with media attention likely to minimize Britain&#8217;s historical role in ending the slave trade and emphasize alleged British wrongs.<br \/>\n&#8211; The text also includes some nonessential code and form elements, which appear to be remnants of a web page rather than part of the narrative. 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