

As a result, this book begins with clear directions for grilling, hot and cold smoking and bread making.

Grilling, smoking, and bread are essentials in the Black Axe Mangal restaurant. Like the restaurant, this book as something special on it that always makes us want to go back to it. If we have to choose one word to describe this book it would be “different”. Including Pig’s Cheek and Prune Doughnuts, Squid Ink Flatbreads with Smoked Cod’s Roe and Shrimp-encrusted Pigs’ Tails, along with step-by-step instructions for the three fundamentals of BAM cooking: bread, smoking, and grilling. The Black Axe Mangal Cookbook brings together Tienan’s signature recipes. “The Vikings” was considered, but, alluding to their weapon of choice, they ultimately settled on “The Black Axe Confraternity. Inside London’s Most-Loved Cult Restaurant The new group wanted a name evocative of power, too, as one of them later recalled. There were power struggles, dissenting factions split off.Īnd at the beginning of the 1977/78 academic year, nine students at the University of Benin came together to defend themselves against the Pyrates, who not only called the shots in university politics, but also behaved ruthlessly on campus. The Pyrates grew rapidly when new universities were founded after Nigeria gained its independence.

Instead of the suits then customary on campus, they wore baggy pants and headscarves to signal their rejection of the elitist structures at what was then the country’s only university. They called themselves the “Pyrates” and chose Wole Soyinka, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, as their captain. Nigeria was still under British rule when a handful of students founded the country’s first fraternity in the early 1950s. Streets of Lagos: Nigeria in 1970 : Bild: AP While he was attending a lecture, he says, several Black Axe members beat up a fellow student from a rival cult in front of the lecture hall, smashing the victim’s skull with machetes and killing him. "The Black Axe was the most notorious“, says a former geology student who studied in Ilorin in western Nigeria in the early 1990s. In its home country, the NBM is associated with the “Black Axe,” a forbidden “campus cult,” as violent gangs and secret societies with roots in universities are called in Nigeria. And law enforcement officials who have investigated members in recent years in Canada, the UK and Italy are also convinced that the movement has strayed far from its original path.

The German branch is registered as a Verein, one of the country’s ubiquitous “voluntary associations.” The erstwhile student fraternity has become a movement that claims to fight for "equality and social justice for all". According to its current leadership, the NBM has around 30,000 members. And indeed, the organization is now active on almost all continents. The students who founded the NBM set themselves an ambitious goal: They wanted to fight the oppression and hardship black people faced, not only in their home country of Nigeria, but all over the world. "I want to expose them, to show what they really are: a very effective and dangerous international crime machine”, he says. And if he agrees to meet, he insists that not even the city be mentioned. He would never show his face in front of a camera. He publishes photos and names, newspaper articles and internal documents. Tobias Uche also runs a website about the NBM.
