01 People · Kaduna
Amina, who built walls
Queen Amina of Zazzau →02 People · Cross River
The woman who stood for twins
Mary Slessor in Calabar →03 People · Lagos
The captive who came back as a slave dealer
Seriki Williams Abass →04 People · Oyo
The richest woman in Ibadan
Efunsetan Aniwura →05 People · Oyo
The general who said no to the king
Kurunmi of Ijaiye →06 People · Osun
The Austrian woman who saved a sacred forest
Susanne Wenger, Osogbo →07 People · Osun
The warrior they could not keep
Ogedengbe of Ilesa →08 People · Anambra
The merchant queen of the Niger
Omu Okwei of Ossomari →09 People · Abia
The leprosy patient who gave Igbo churches their songs
Ikoli Harcourt Whyte at Uzuakoli →10 People · Kwara
Afonja Lost Ilorin to His Own Allies
Afonja of Ilorin →11 People · Kano
Alhassan Dantata: The Boy from Bebeji Who Begged in Accra
Dangote's great-grandfather and his hard start →12 People · Kogi
The King Behind the Stories of Magic
Attah Ameh Oboni →13 People · Katsina
Emir Dikko: The Emir Who Went to Mecca by Way of England
A Katsina emir's 1921 pilgrimage, and the London garden he never forgot →14 People · Ondo
The schoolteacher who sent a hunter into the forest of spirits
Fagunwa and the first Yoruba novel →15 People · Ekiti
The governor who would not leave his guest
Fajuyi and the road to Lalupon →16 People · Kano
Gidan Dan Hausa: The 'Son of Hausa' Who Was Swiss
Hanns Vischer and the first western schools in the North →17 People · Kogi
The Trader's Son Who Changed Okene
Ibrahim Onoruoiza Atta →18 People · Lagos
The kingmaker Lagos sent away
Madam Tinubu, merchant and kingmaker →19 People · Benue
The Man Who Became the First Tor Tiv
Makir Zakpe, Gboko →20 People · Niger
The Emir Britain Removed and Brought Back
Ibrahim of Kontagora →21 People · Lagos
Taiwo Olowo, the rich man of Lagos who was once a slave
Taiwo Olowo, "Taiwo the rich" →22 People · Lagos
Oshodi Tapa, the Nupe boy who became a Lagos war chief
Balogun Oshodi Tapa of Lagos →23 People · Oyo
Basorun Gaa, the kingmaker who outlived four kings of Oyo
Basorun Gaa of Old Oyo →24 People · Lagos
Agege bread and the Jamaican baker of Ebute Metta
The Jamaican behind Agege bread →