The urban history of Afro- Brazillians in Ghana
The Brazil house which is located on the Brazil lane in Jamestown was built in 1836 bearing the beautiful footprints of Accra’s urban history. It housed the Tabom or Agudas people, who were the Afro-Brazilian community mostly of Yoruba descent. The Tabom people are an Afro-Brazilian community of former slaves returnees about 3,000 and 8,000. According to historical reports of Ghana, they came back on a ship called SS Salisbury, offered by the British government. Those who arrived in South Ghana and Accra, were numbered about seventy Afro- Brazillians of seven different families. The reception by the then Mantse, Nii Ankrah of the Otublohum area was so warm that they decided to settle down in Accra. The leader of the Tabom group at the time of their arrival was a certain Nii Azumah Nelson. The eldest son of Azumah Nelson, Nii Alasha, was his successor and a very close friend to the Ga King Nii Tackie Tawiah. Together they helped in the development of the whole community in commerc...