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13 local governments · 4 stories
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4 stories
01
Legend · Ebonyi
The salt lakes that only women may work, and that no machine has beaten
Okposi and Uburu salt lakes, Ohaozara →
02
Custom · Ebonyi
Okeaku, the Ezza new year that ends the hungry season
Ezza Ezekuna and the Okeaku festival, Ezza South →
03
Lost history · Ebonyi
Nigeria's first cement factory, where rats and snakes now do the shift work
Nigercem cement factory, Nkalagu, Ishielu →
04
Lost history · Ebonyi
Ekwunekwune 1954, the village that stopped paying tax
The "Akunakuna" tax revolt of February 1954 →