Oil portrait of Kenneth Onwuka Dike as a young man. Robert Sivell is the artist who painted the original oil portrait, 1940. Source: Wikipedia
In the bustling colonial city of Ibadan…
Eze Nri Obalike sounding his bell, Thomas Northcote
Before ink touched paper, before cameras rolled or scripts were written, the Igbo people were already historians. Their archives were not libraries of…
Onwuka Dike. Source: Historical Nigeria on Facebook
In the quiet university town of Ibadan in the 1950s, something profound was stirring. The winds that rustled the mango trees carried more…
The story of a people is not written in dust, it is etched in memory, song, and story. For the Igbo, whose history was long spoken before it was written,…