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121 Lost history · Enugu

The village square built from the waste of ancient furnaces

Lejja's iron-slag square, Nsukka →
122 Lost history · Anambra

Annabelle, the road that became Africa's second-busiest airport by night

Uli airstrip and the Biafran airlift →
123 People · Imo

Pericoma, the masquerade singer people said could make himself too heavy to carry

Pericoma Okoye of Arondizuogu →
124 Lost history · Imo

The speech in Ahiara where a dying Biafra wrote down what it wanted to be

The Ahiara Declaration, Mbaise →
125 People · Imo

Flora Nwapa, the Oguta woman who wrote the lake goddess into world literature

Flora Nwapa and Uhamiri of Oguta Lake →
126 Legend · Ebonyi

The salt lakes that only women may work, and that no machine has beaten

Okposi and Uburu salt lakes, Ohaozara →
127 People · Anambra

The forgotten acting president who handed Nigeria to the army

Nwafor Orizu of Nnewi →
128 People · Imo

The man of timber and caliber, who made English do tricks

K.O. Mbadiwe of Arondizuogu →
129 People · Anambra

The famous Igbo voice of the slave trade who may not have been born in Igboland

Olaudah Equiano and Isseke, Ihiala →
130 Legend · Anambra

The old man who squeezed water from his beard and became a lake

Agulu Lake, Anaocha →
131 Custom · Anambra

The cow festival that comes once a generation, and the war it remembers

Igba Asara, Ukpor, Nnewi South →
132 Custom · Ebonyi

Okeaku, the Ezza new year that ends the hungry season

Ezza Ezekuna and the Okeaku festival, Ezza South →
133 Place name · Enugu

The hill where they looked for silver, found coal, and left a waterfall inside a cave

Ngwo Pine Forest and cave waterfall, Udi →
134 Lost history · Abia

Lokpanta, the cattle market that kept moving until it reached the expressway

Lokpanta cattle market, Umunneochi →
135 Legend · Imo

Owerri, the city named after a quarrel over a funeral cow

How Owerri got its name, Owerri Municipal →
136 Lost history · Ebonyi

Nigeria's first cement factory, where rats and snakes now do the shift work

Nigercem cement factory, Nkalagu, Ishielu →
137 People · Imo

Mbonu Ojike, the boycott king who gave us "Mazi"

Mbonu Ojike of Arondizuogu →
138 Lost history · Enugu

Ogbunigwe, the weapon Biafra built from scratch

Ogbunigwe, the "Ojukwu bucket" →
139 People · Anambra

Christopher Okigbo, the poet who died defending Nsukka

Christopher Okigbo of Ojoto →
140 Lost history · Anambra

Nri, the Igbo kingdom that ruled without an army

The kingdom of Nri →
141 People · Enugu

Ahebi Ugbabe, the runaway girl who came home a king

Ahebi Ugbabe of Enugu-Ezike →
142 Place name · Anambra

Ogbunike Cave, where a Senate President hid the mace

Ogbunike Cave, Anambra →
143 Lost history · Enugu

Oji River, where the cured cannot go home

The leprosy settlements of the South East →
144 Legend · Enugu

Mmaku, the goddess who got tired and left her cave

The caves of Mmaku and Achi →
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