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Lost histories

True events that school books skipped or forgot.

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78 stories

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01 Lost history · Lagos

The man who would not bow

Bode Thomas & the Alaafin →
02 Lost history · Abia

The women who sat on the empire

Aba Women's War, 1929 →
03 Lost history · Lagos

The house that lied about its age

Ilojo Bar, Lagos Island →
04 Lost history · Lagos

The Sultan's gift to a Lagos mosque

Shitta-Bey Mosque →
05 Lost history · Ogun

The farmers who tore up the railway

The Adubi War, 1918 →
06 Lost history · Oyo

The Welshman who built Ibadan's landmarks

Taffy Jones & Mapo Hall →
07 Lost history · Abia

The court where losing could mean vanishing

Ibini Ukpabi, the Long Juju of Arochukwu →
08 Lost history · Enugu

Twenty-one miners at Iva Valley

Iva Valley shooting, Enugu, 1949 →
09 Lost history · Anambra

The bronzes he used to water his goats

Isaiah Anozie and the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes →
10 Lost history · Abia

The cloth the Ijaw kings wore, woven by Ndoki women

Akwete cloth and Dada Nwakata →
11 Lost history · Imo

The houses built for gods, and built to rot

Mbari houses of the Owerri Igbo →
12 Lost history · Ogun

Ten thousand women at the king's gate

The Abeokuta Women's Revolt →
13 Lost history · Ondo

Aiyetoro, the fishing town that put every penny in one common purse

Aiyetoro and the Holy Apostles →
14 Lost history · Kogi

The Steel Dream That Kept Nigeria Waiting

Ajaokuta Steel, Kogi →
15 Lost history · Ondo

The market quarrel that cost Akure its freedom

The Akure–Benin War of 1818 →
16 Lost history · Benue

Atem Tyough: When Tivland Rose Against Its Own Rulers

The Tiv revolts of 1960-1966 →
17 Lost history · Niger

The River Town That Sent Trains North

Baro river port →
18 Lost history · Borno

The Red Wall Nobody Remembers

Garu Kime, Monguno →
19 Lost history · Kano

Gidan Rumfa: A Palace Aligned to Mecca by the Stars

Kano's 500-year-old palace was lined up with Mecca without a compass →
20 Lost history · Oyo

The years Oyo ruled from a small hill town

Igboho, Oyo's capital in exile →
21 Lost history · Kwara

The rock beyond Mungo Park's memorial

Jebba's rock and memorial →
22 Lost history · Kano

Kano's Groundnut Pyramids Became a Football Field

The groundnut pyramids of the North →
23 Lost history · Katsina

Katsina College: The School That Kept Changing Its Name

Barewa College was born in mud buildings in Katsina →
24 Lost history · Kogi

The Emirs Who Never Went Home

Lokoja's exiled emirs →
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