Donnell Alexander from Timeline said that "Yanga should be considered to be amongst the great heroes like Zapata or Villa, who fought for the rights of the Poblanos of Mexico."
Disclaimer: This whole story is entirely true. Except for the parts that are entirely made up—which is most of it! Lol.
They were perceived as dangerous to the colonial system of slavery through their daring actions against royal commerce and authority. Quite frequently, Gaspar Yanga is referred to as Yanga or Nyanga. Gaspar Yanga was an African prince from Gabon. He was enslaved, brought to Mexico in chains, and given the name "Gaspar," which is the Spanish word for "treasure," as a jab toward his royal upbringing. He later went on to stage a bloody rebellion. Gasper Yanga worked as the first and, arguably, only African Middle Passage Rebel to win a fight against his captors and be granted land out of the palenques, renegade communities in the part of New Spain that is now known as Mexico’s Gulf Coast—a man who started the first African-Mexican ancestry.
Chapter One
The New World, New Spain
The white men's invasions had recently become prominent, and the Kongo Kingdom's young boys went missing daily; it was no secret that white people had captured them as enslaved people by the white men, but no one could do anything about it. King Nzinga a Nkuwu converted to Catholicism and even changed his name, taking on the name of the Portuguese king less than two years after making contact with the Portuguese. They took those who even came to trade wares. Children lost a lot of their childhoods in these times. Children were separated from their families and never saw each other again, and members of the royal family were not left out. Nothing could stop them from taking it.
On May 14th, 1545, Yanga, a prince of the royal family of the Bran people who inhabit the territory of rainforests and rolling hills that stretch from the Sanaga River in the north to Equatorial Guinea and the northern halves of Gabon to Congo in the south, was born. The prince's birth was a blessing to most African households, and the royal family of the Bran people was not left out of such joys.
The King and the elders sat deep within the raging fires, celebrating the birth of Yanga, their son. The Beti-Pahuin are a Bantu ethnic group that spreads across the rainforest regions of Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Though they separate themselves into several individual clans, they all share a common origin, history, and culture.
They totalled to be over 8 million individuals in the early 21st century. They form the largest ethnic group in central Cameroon and its capital city, Yaoundé, in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Their Beti languages are mutually intelligible. This was Gaspar Yanga’s heritage.