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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 →