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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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