Nigeria history

Idanre hills. Located in Ondo state in the southwestern part of Nigeria, Idanre is a town surrounded by giant stones. One could almost think of it rolling down and crushing nearby houses. It is a top historical site in Nigeria. Idanre hills are said to...
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Nigeria accepted the...
The history of Nigeria can be traced to the earliest inhabitants whose remains date from at least 13,000 BC through early civilizations such as the Nok culture which began around 1500 BC. Numerous ancient African civilizations settled in the region that...
history of Nigeria, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Nigeria. The country, located on the Atlantic coast in western Africa, has a diverse geography, with climates ranging from arid to humid equatorial. Also diverse is its...
Sungbo's Eredo and Iya of Benin. These are a series of defensive walls found in the southwest of Nigeria, in Ogun and Edo states. Sungbo's Eredo are walls that were said to have been built in honor of a female chief, Bilikisu Sungbo. Her story...
Summary. The region of West Africa currently delineated by the boundaries of the independent country of Nigeria has a long, rich, and complex history exhibiting dramatic political, economic, social, and cultural change over time. Archaeological evidence...
The Lagos Observer (1882-1888) The Lagos Observer, the fourth newspaper in Nigeria, was founded in Feb. 1882 by J. Bagan Benjamin, an African member…. Load More. A section wholly dedicated to old school music. Visit now. OldNaija is an online platform...
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Nigeria - Colonialism, Independence, Civil War: Evidence of human occupation in Nigeria dates back thousands of years. The oldest fossil remains found by archaeologists in the southwestern area of Iwo Eleru, near Akure, have been dated to about 9000...
UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Nigeria. 5. Kano City Wall and Associated Sites, Kano State. Kano City wall is 14km long, built from 1095 through 1134 and completed in the middle of the 14th century. The reason for building the wall was for the...
Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History provides a comprehensive history of Africa's most populous and most rapidly developing country. Rather than centering the rise of the nation-state, the Handbook reads the narrative of the national...
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