25 People · Osun
The drummer who walked into a paint workshop
Muraina Oyelami of Iragbiji →26 People · Ekiti
The steamroller driver who walked into Efon's forbidden forest
Babalola and the forbidden forest of Efon →27 People · Imo
Pericoma, the masquerade singer people said could make himself too heavy to carry
Pericoma Okoye of Arondizuogu →28 People · Imo
Flora Nwapa, the Oguta woman who wrote the lake goddess into world literature
Flora Nwapa and Uhamiri of Oguta Lake →29 People · Anambra
The forgotten acting president who handed Nigeria to the army
Nwafor Orizu of Nnewi →30 People · Imo
The man of timber and caliber, who made English do tricks
K.O. Mbadiwe of Arondizuogu →31 People · Anambra
The famous Igbo voice of the slave trade who may not have been born in Igboland
Olaudah Equiano and Isseke, Ihiala →32 People · Imo
Mbonu Ojike, the boycott king who gave us "Mazi"
Mbonu Ojike of Arondizuogu →33 People · Anambra
Christopher Okigbo, the poet who died defending Nsukka
Christopher Okigbo of Ojoto →34 People · Enugu
Ahebi Ugbabe, the runaway girl who came home a king
Ahebi Ugbabe of Enugu-Ezike →35 People · Edo
Emotan, the market woman Benin still salutes
Emotan and her shrine at Oba Market →36 People · Cross River
The Robin Johns, the Calabar traders who were sold themselves
Little Ephraim and Ancona Robin John, 1767–1774 →37 People · Bayelsa
Isaac Boro and the twelve-day republic
Isaac Adaka Boro's Niger Delta Republic, 1966 →38 People · Kaduna
Gambo Sawaba, the woman who kept a prison blanket by the door
Hajiya Gambo Sawaba of Zaria →39 People · Borno
Laura Wine, the nurse whose death gave Lassa its name to the world
The first Lassa fever patient →40 People · Cross River
The Calabar trader who kept a diary
Antera Duke's diary, 1785–1788 →41 People · Delta
Dom Domingos, the Warri prince who studied in Portugal
The Catholic kings of Warri and the prince sent to Coimbra →42 People · Cross River
Eyo Honesty II, the Creek Town king who walked on money
The cabin boy who became king of Creek Town →43 People · Rivers
The enslaved boy who built a kingdom
King Jaja of Opobo, c. 1821–1891 →44 People · Delta
The merchant prince who lost his river
Nana Olomu of Ebrohimi, 1852–1916 →45 People · Edo
The queen mother behind the FESTAC mask
Queen Idia and the pendant Britain would not lend →46 People · Rivers
The Bonny king Britain removed, then paid to bring back
King William Dappa Pepple's exile and return →