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Frederick William Koko

d. 1898 · 19th century · Also known as King Koko

Frederick William Koko was king of Nembe, also called Brass, in the Niger delta of present-day Nigeria, from 1889. A Christian who later returned to the traditional religion, he led the raid on the Royal Niger Company's depot at Akassa in 1895 in protest at the company's trade monopoly. After a British punitive expedition he withdrew into the interior, where he died in 1898.

Frederick William Koko
Image: Signed (on prow of canoe) by Robert Barnes ARWS (1840–1895) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Nembe Kingdom

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Frederick William Koko. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/frederick-william-koko
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