01 Lost history · Abia
The women who sat on the empire
Aba Women's War, 1929 →02 Legend · Kano
Kofar Mata: One Family's Dye Pits Since 1498
The Dabosa family and Kano's indigo pits →03 Lost history · Cross River
The stone faces in the forest circles
Ikom monoliths (akwanshi) →04 Custom · Benue
Did Spirits Teach Him This Theatre?
Tiv puppet theatre →05 Place name · Nasarawa
The Prince Who Lost a Throne and Found Lafia
How Lafia was founded →06 Legend · Kwara
The People Who Became Stone
Esie stone figures →07 Lost history · Niger
The River That Kept Mungo Park
Mungo Park at Bussa →08 Custom · Niger
The Bida Families Who Turn Bottles Into Beads
Masaga glassmakers of Bida →09 People · Kaduna
Amina, who built walls
Queen Amina of Zazzau →10 People · Cross River
The woman who stood for twins
Mary Slessor in Calabar →11 People · Benue
The Man Who Became the First Tor Tiv
Makir Zakpe, Gboko →12 Custom · Kogi
The Iron That Promised Freedom
Lokoja's Iron of Liberty →13 Legend · Ogun
The great ditch of a childless queen
Sungbo's Eredo →14 Lost history · Niger
The Northern Town Where Zik and Ojukwu Began
Zungeru's shared beginnings →15 Legend · Cross River
Obudu Ranch began with a vet's camp on Oshie Ridge
How a cattle plateau became Nigeria's mountain resort →16 Custom · Benue
The Stripes That Say Tiv
Tiv A'nger cloth →17 Lost history · Niger
The Town Beneath Kainji Lake
Old Bussa →18 Legend · Osun
The queen who let herself be captured
Moremi Ajasoro →19 Legend · Katsina
Gobarau Minaret: A Mud Tower That Was Once a University
Katsina's mud minaret and the builder who saved it →20 Lost history · Kogi
The Steel Dream That Kept Nigeria Waiting
Ajaokuta Steel, Kogi →21 Place name · Niger
The Birds Behind Zuma Rock's Name
Zuma Rock, Suleja →22 Place name · Kogi
Did Nigeria Get Its Name on This Hill?
Mount Patti, Lokoja →23 Legend · Kano
Kano's Walls and the 'New Gate' of 1933
A thousand-year-old wall, fifteen gates, and one called 'new' →24 Lost history · Lagos
The house that lied about its age
Ilojo Bar, Lagos Island →25 Place name · Ogun
The city under a rock
How Abeokuta got its name →26 Legend · Ondo
The festival when the king plaits his hair
Igogo festival, Owo →27 Lost history · Kogi
The Emirs Who Never Went Home
Lokoja's exiled emirs →28 People · Osun
The Austrian woman who saved a sacred forest
Susanne Wenger, Osogbo →