01 Lost history · Abia
The women who sat on the empire
Aba Women's War, 1929 →02 Folktale · Anambra
Why the tortoise's shell is cracked
Tortoise and the feast in the sky →03 Lost history · Abia
The court where losing could mean vanishing
Ibini Ukpabi, the Long Juju of Arochukwu →04 Lost history · Enugu
Twenty-one miners at Iva Valley
Iva Valley shooting, Enugu, 1949 →05 People · Anambra
The merchant queen of the Niger
Omu Okwei of Ossomari →06 People · Abia
The leprosy patient who gave Igbo churches their songs
Ikoli Harcourt Whyte at Uzuakoli →07 Lost history · Anambra
The bronzes he used to water his goats
Isaiah Anozie and the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes →08 Lost history · Abia
The cloth the Ijaw kings wore, woven by Ndoki women
Akwete cloth and Dada Nwakata →09 Lost history · Imo
The houses built for gods, and built to rot
Mbari houses of the Owerri Igbo →10 Lost history · Enugu
The village square built from the waste of ancient furnaces
Lejja's iron-slag square, Nsukka →11 Lost history · Anambra
Annabelle, the road that became Africa's second-busiest airport by night
Uli airstrip and the Biafran airlift →12 People · Imo
Pericoma, the masquerade singer people said could make himself too heavy to carry
Pericoma Okoye of Arondizuogu →13 Lost history · Imo
The speech in Ahiara where a dying Biafra wrote down what it wanted to be
The Ahiara Declaration, Mbaise →14 People · Imo
Flora Nwapa, the Oguta woman who wrote the lake goddess into world literature
Flora Nwapa and Uhamiri of Oguta Lake →15 Legend · Ebonyi
The salt lakes that only women may work, and that no machine has beaten
Okposi and Uburu salt lakes, Ohaozara →16 People · Anambra
The forgotten acting president who handed Nigeria to the army
Nwafor Orizu of Nnewi →17 People · Imo
The man of timber and caliber, who made English do tricks
K.O. Mbadiwe of Arondizuogu →18 People · Anambra
The famous Igbo voice of the slave trade who may not have been born in Igboland
Olaudah Equiano and Isseke, Ihiala →19 Legend · Anambra
The old man who squeezed water from his beard and became a lake
Agulu Lake, Anaocha →20 Custom · Anambra
The cow festival that comes once a generation, and the war it remembers
Igba Asara, Ukpor, Nnewi South →21 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 →22 Lost history · Abia
Lokpanta, the cattle market that kept moving until it reached the expressway
Lokpanta cattle market, Umunneochi →23 Legend · Imo
Owerri, the city named after a quarrel over a funeral cow
How Owerri got its name, Owerri Municipal →24 Lost history · Ebonyi
Nigeria's first cement factory, where rats and snakes now do the shift work
Nigercem cement factory, Nkalagu, Ishielu →