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True events that school books skipped or forgot.

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73 Lost history · Bayelsa

The schoolteacher king who burned Akassa

King Koko and the Akassa raid, 1895 →
74 Lost history · Bayelsa

Odi, where only three buildings stood

Odi, November 1999 →
75 Lost history · Rivers

The Ogoni women who told Shell to stay out

FOWA and the women of the Ogoni struggle →
76 Lost history · Cross River

The peace talks on the Calabar River that were a trap

The 1767 massacre of Old Town traders at Old Calabar →
77 Lost history · Bayelsa

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

Oloibiri oilfield and Otuabagi, 1956–2024 →
78 Lost history · Akwa Ibom

The Oron ancestors who were burned as firewood

The Oron ekpu figures and the civil war →
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