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Ijaw

Stories of the Ijaw.

12 stories

01 Lost history · Delta

Koko 1988, the drums in Sunday Nanna's yard

The Koko toxic waste dump →
02 People · Bayelsa

Isaac Boro and the twelve-day republic

Isaac Adaka Boro's Niger Delta Republic, 1966 →
03 People · Delta

Dom Domingos, the Warri prince who studied in Portugal

The Catholic kings of Warri and the prince sent to Coimbra →
04 Legend · Bayelsa

Egbesu, the Ijaw god who only fights for justice

Egbesu, the Ijaw deity of justice and just war →
05 Legend · Rivers

Elem Kalabari, the kingdom that packed up and left its capital

Why the Kalabari moved to Bakana, Abonnema and Buguma →
06 Lost history · Bayelsa

The day five hundred communities met in Kaiama

Kaiama Declaration, 11 December 1998 →
07 Lost history · Bayelsa

The schoolteacher king who burned Akassa

King Koko and the Akassa raid, 1895 →
08 People · Delta

The merchant prince who lost his river

Nana Olomu of Ebrohimi, 1852–1916 →
09 Lost history · Bayelsa

Odi, where only three buildings stood

Odi, November 1999 →
10 Lost history · Rivers

The Ogoni women who told Shell to stay out

FOWA and the women of the Ogoni struggle →
11 Lost history · Bayelsa

Nigeria's first oil well, and the village it really sat in

Oloibiri oilfield and Otuabagi, 1956–2024 →
12 People · Rivers

The Bonny king Britain removed, then paid to bring back

King William Dappa Pepple's exile and return →