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I Am From Cross River, Not Igbo β And History Proves Why Old Labels Must Die
It is beyond dispute that European explorers and slave merchants in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries referred to everybody…
AWOLOWO’S SECRET THAT HIS ENEMIES COULD NEVER USE AGAINST HIM
He Died In 1987. His Enemies Searched Everywhere For ONE Dirty Secret. They Found NOTHING. When Chief Obafemi Awolowo died…
The Cry That Named a Town: How Bikobiko Town in Ugep Urban Was Founded
After the attack, the people of Ikpakapit town, under whose jurisdiction the settlement of the Benobase fell, sent some of…
From Cross River Trade to Ledu Title Holders: How Commerce, Wealth, Matriclan Expansion and the Okenka Institution Gave Rise to the Yasu in Yakurr (Cross River State)
The Yasu, therefore, was not merely a title but an economic and political innovation. Born out of Cross River commerce,…
UNVEILING THE YAKURR/ABIRIBA CONNECTION: A Historical and Anthropological Exploration
The OHCS writer was therefore right: Abiriba are an example of a people ancestrally from the Cross River Basin who…
WHEN THE EAST WAS ONE? A REJOINDER TO THE REVISIONIST NARRATIVE OF A SHARED EASTERN PARADISE
The East was never one because we attended the same schools. It will only be one when we admit how…
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by Agbonmagbe Kazeem Before the Nigerian Civil War turned soldiers into enemies and regions into battlefields, there was a Nigerian…
HYDRO-CULTURAL TRAJECTORY AND SOCIO-SPATIAL DYNAMICS OF THE OMABOLOβOMAMBALAβANAMBRA RIVER CORRIDOR
Abstract The river presently known as the Anambra River constitutes an important geographical corridor linking the upper basin around Ankpa…
THE ATHENS OF WEST AFRICA: FROM LIBERATED SLAVES TO AFRICA’S FIRST UNIVERSITY – CELEBRATING PROFESSOR OKA OBONO’S HONORARY PROFESSORSHIP AT FOURAH BAY COLLEGE
On this historic note, I heartily congratulate Professor Oka Obono on his appointment as Honorary Professor at such a citadel…
Colonialism in Nigeria: Duration, Character and the Road to Independence
As Nigeria marks 66 years of independence, we wish her a hearty Independence Day. We salute the resilience of her…
THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA: WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WENT WRONG
Can we do what China has done in the next fifty years? The change will be effected by your generation…
HAITI FREED THE BLACK WORLD. WHY HAS THE BLACK WORLD ABANDONED HAITI?
Otunba (Dr.) Abdulfalil Abayomi Odunowo Haiti defeated slavery and colonial domination when Black freedom seemed impossible. More than two centuries…
