Fathers and brothers were (forcefully) enlisted into war, kids starved - their ribs tearing their already pale skin - to death, wives lost their husbands, husbands...
In the intro for the track “Another Story,” off Burna Boy‘s “African Giant Album,” it was mentioned that Britain paid £865,000 to Royal Niger Company to...
In 2018, with some schools no longer teaching Nigerian history, a lot of our children don’t have Nigerian/African characters to look up to, or characters who...
The story goes that one of the biggest protests against colonial rule and its obnoxious policies actually happened in Ikon Abasi in Akwa Ibom State. According...
It recently came to my attention that History has been taken off the curriculum for secondary schools in Nigeria. The reason: only very few students offer...
Remember the interesting first episode of Daniel Effiong’s web series tagged ‘Crimson‘? {Click here if you missed the first episode} Crimson is a 3-part series which...
I got this video yesterday and I knew I had to share with you all. It’s a feature length educative and historical documentary of Nigeria....
“History shall be kind to me for I intend to write it” –Winston Churchill I interned at a publishing company in Lagos and during this period, I...
Have you ever wondered how nice it would be if Nigeria has an equivalent of the US Library of congress? Ok that seems a little bit...
After two whole years of stacking shelves at Leventis Superstores Lagos, Nkiru felt enormous pride as the store manager ushered her to the checkout counter. “I’m...
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