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8000 B.C. – Creation of oldest currently known artifacts and stone shelters. Igboland mostly occupied by foragers, including  Bantu ancestors. 3000–500 B.C. – Development of agriculture (probably including yam cultivation) and animal husbandry. 500 B.C. – A.D. 200 –  Nok culture  flourishes in Northern Nigeria. 400–100 B.C. – Ironworking develops around  Opi . 770 A.D. – Early  Ijaw  settlement. 800 – Yoruba civilization already well established, based on thirteen farming villages centered at  Ilé-Ifẹ̀ . Mega-state at  Igbo-Ukwu  has complex social structure,  produces copious artifacts  including bronzes. 1000 – The reign of the  Kingdom of Nri  began. 1100 – The  Islamic state  of  Borno  was established. 1200 – Ilé-Ifẹ̀ becomes Yoruba metropolis. 1255 –  Oba  Ewedo comes to power in  Benin Empire . 1450 – Beginning of European contact on the Atlantic coast. [1] 15...

Synopsis Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri. James and his brother Frank served for the Confederate Army before embarking on criminal careers in the Old West. The James brothers made a name for themselves as bank and train robbers, leading the James-Younger gang. Gang member Robert Ford killed Jesse James in 1882, after which James became a legend of the Old West. Early Life American outlaw, robber and legendary figure Jesse Woodson James was born on September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri. Jesse and his brother Frank James were educated and hailed from a prestigious family of farmers. Their father, the Reverend Robert James, was a Baptist minister who married Zerelda Cole James and moved from Kentucky to Missouri in 1842. In the summer of 1863, the James farm was brutally attacked by Union soldiers. Jesse was 16 when he and Frank became Confederate guerrilla soldiers, riding alongside William Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson. Partners i...

Booker Taliaferro Washington  (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. In 1856, Washington was born a slave in Virginia to a woman named Jane. After emancipation, his family resettled in  West Virginia . He worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now  Hampton University ) and attended college at  Wayland Seminary  (now  Virginia Union University ). In 1881, he was named as the first leader of the new  Tuskegee Institute  in Alabama. Washington attained national prominence for his  Atlanta Address of 1895 , which attracted the attention of politicians and the public, making him a popular spokesperson for African-American citizens. He built a nationwide network of supporters in many black communities, with black ministers, educators and businessmen composing his core supporters. Washington played a dominant role in...

1. The Gambia has only one university. 2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s only spanish speaking country. 3. South Africa is the most visited African country. 4. Nigeria has the richest Black people in Africa. 5. Samuel Eto’o is the highest paid Footballer of all time, he received about  £350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011. 6. A person from Botswana is called a Motswana, the plural is Batswana. 7. A person from Lesotho is called a Mosotho. 8. A person from Niger is called a Nigerien. 8. A person from Burkina Faso is called a Burkinabe. 9. Nigeria has won more football cups than England. 10. Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the world’s most educated President with 7 degrees, two of them are Masters. 11. Al-Ahly of Egypt is the richest club in Africa. 12. Didier Drogba is Chelsea’s highest goalscorer in European competition. 13. Johannesburg, South Africa is the most visited city in Africa. 14. Zinedine Zidane wanted to play for Àlgeria, but the selector rejected him, say...

Lagos-based lawyer and Industrialist Chukwudi Atueyi yesterday gave vivid details of what transpired at a meeting between some Igbo leaders and Oba of Lagos Rilwanu Akiolu, following which the traditional ruler was alleged to have made a controversial coment about the Igbo. Atueyi, who regretted the uproar that followed the meeting, said Oba Akiolu’s statement was not directed at the Igbo in Lagos but jocularly to his Igbo friends that visited him. He said: “All the Eze Ndi Igbo honorary chiefs in Lagos went to pay the Oba a solidarity visit on Sunday and I was fortunate to be among those present. What the Oba said was fully and simply directed to only the Igbo present at the meeting who his majesty considered to be very close to him and should understand him well enough. “You know when one talks to his very close friends and subjects, he tends to be very free with them, so he was being very free with those present at the meeting and wanted us to realize how serious and close...