Nigerian history

Yoruba women have the most amazing hair. The styles are creative, fun, and timeless.

A Photograph by Taiwo Arifayan

After years being ravaged by the Biafran civil war, Nigeria was ready to kick out the jams in the 1970s with psych-laced funk. Musicologist Uchenna Ikonne tells the stories behind the sunglasses

1959 Nigeria magazine cover

The transportation of enslaved Africans by slave traders from Africa to the Americas is known as the transatlantic slave trade. The slave trade primarily occurred throughout the 16th to 19th centuries. The main Atlantic slave trading nations were Portugal, Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. These European countries would either capture or buy Africans from their countries and bring them back to Europe to be sold and put to work in mines and plantations (AD).

I was talking to a friend sometimes last week about a part of the Nigerian History and then I realised that there is actually a problem with the way and intensity our History is passed, told and do…