A photograph from the National Museum Lagos collection of colonial-period photos, illustrating everyday life and material culture during the era surrounding Nigerian independence in which Erejuwa II’s reign operated. Photo…
Photo Credit: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Approximate greatest territorial extent of Dahomey (c. 19th century).
The modern West African nation now known as the Republic of Benin has undergone a profound transformation,…
A young Igbo woman from Onicha Olona, or surrounding settlement, c. 1912-13.
Onicha Olona is an Enuani settlement of the western Igbo people, located west of the Niger River in present-day…
W. E. B. Du Bois with Nnamdi Azikiwe, ca. 1930 by Cecil Layne, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In January 1930, during the height of the Women’s War in Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe,…
In November 2019, the 90th anniversary of the Women’s War, known in Igbo as Ògù Ụmùnwaànyị was commemorated. This historic uprising, which took place from 1929 to 1930, remains one…
Nigerian Federal House of Representatives at the capital, Lagos, 1956.
This photo from 1956 at the Nigerian Federal House of Representatives at the capital, Lagos, during Elizabeth II and the Duke…