Did you hear the one about the British Queen with an African Goddaughter? Nope? Neither did I. How did a West African slave become protegee to Queen Victoria, one of the most famous British monarchs? Well, to understand, let us wind the story back... for this young lady that we have come to know as Sarah Forbes Bonetta was not originally a slave at all. It was 1843 in the Egbado village of Oke-Odan that a West African princess of the Yoruba people was born to an African chief