way before it was named "Nigeria" by the European colonialists in the 19th century. During the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries), several powerful West African kingdoms/empires like the ...

Nigeria is of course a plural state made ... Niger rivers had historically been in contact with one another before the advent of colonialism. So we can identify a commonality of culture at least ...

British colonial rule in Nigeria lasted for decades ... it served as the headquarters of the British colonial government before the capital was moved to Abuja in 1991. Related News British ...

Read Also: EU supports Nigeria’s clean energy project ... necessarily welcome accretions from other cultures. Before the coming of colonialism Nigerian cultural plurality was also not static.

Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Nigeria ditched its indigenous national anthem in May and restored the old colonial one. The decision by the country’s National Assembly to revive a song written ...