The Angel's Story

The lone statuette on the parapet of Ilojo Bar used to rise high above Tinubu Square. Lagosians lovingly called the white glazed ceramic figurine 'the Angel', even though she did not have wings. It was one of the few artefacts saved during the building's demolition in 12016. Read about the Angel and where she came from.

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The lone statuette on the parapet of Ilojo Bar used to rise high above Tinubu Square. Lagosians lovingly called the white glazed ceramic figurine 'the Angel', even though she did not have wings. It was one of the few artefacts saved during the building's demolition in 12016. Read about the Angel and where she came from.

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Ilojo Bar of Casa do Fernandez was a landmark national monument in Lagos, Nigeria, which was illegally demolished in 2016. Ilojo Bar was designed and built by Africans who returned from slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century. Legacy would like an English-language website that becomes a kind of virtual monument to this remarkable building and the many stories surrounding it.

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