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…
K. O. Mbadiwe (K. O. Mbadiwe, often called Kola Mbadiwe) was one of the most charismatic, controversial, and rhetorically gifted politicians of Nigeria’s nationalist era and First Republic. Remembered as…
Nnamdi Azikiwe. Public Domain Image
On a bright morning in 1949, the town of Aba in southeastern Nigeria stirred with uncommon energy. From Nsukka to Onitsha, from Owerri to Enugu, Igbo…