A Turbulent History of Nigeria
A Turbulent History of Nigeria
The West African country of Nigeria has a complex and turbulent history marked by colonialism, political instability, and economic challenges. The country also had military coups and long periods of military rule whose era deepened corruption and economic mismanagement.
This episode looks at the full story of Nigeria and its turbulent history….
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Immediately she said the oldest iron work in subsaharan Africa was done by the Noks, I nearly switched off the phone. What happened to the Lejja Nsukka Iron smelting site? However She did a great job regardless as every teacher must not be 100%
Great Work Guys……… I enjoyed it. I'm sure i'll stream it all over again. I love my country. God bless Nigeria!!!!
Six hours documentary, I salute You
British no do well at all
Merge ethnicity with different way of life together and put one ethnic group as superior than the other lead to the civil wars
Why are you guys deleting comments? What do you have to hide?
Thank you for posting this. Best wishes
As an African American I found out that most of my ancestry comes from Nigeria, and in specific, the Igbo people 🙏🏽🧡
What is sad here and what I always suspected is Africans sold their own people into Slavery which is a sad, sad thing, I know there was tribal warfare, however, to sell your own people into Slavery is tragic. I hope/pray Africans have learned that the life of selling your own people into slavery is tragic, Africans owe as well as Europeans their descendants. I really don't want to continue watching this video any longer, this is painful to watch.
I must commend your efforts in producing this firstly for your intellectual sagacity and secondly, for committing the time, resources and energy. Anyone who's into video production would know this is a product of months of painstaking works.
As with all works on history, some aggressive counter-narratives would emerge trying to water-down your efforts. Know that you have indeed told a cerebral narrative that would stand the test of time.
Good job!
LOL.
The Igbos were deliberately made insignificant and marginal in their narration of origin and civilization of the Africans in what the british imposed as nigeria even though in real and actual fact, the Igbos were the founders and originators of not not just what became of nigeria, but also entire mankind.
The narrators anchored and located precolonial nigeria civilization to Nok culture around 500 BCE, but the truth is that what the british called "nok culture" were fragments of domineering Igbo civilzation that dated at least, 3500 BCE starting at Ugwuele, an Igbo community in Uturu, Isuikwuato Local Government Area, Abia State which houses a Stone Age site that provides evidence that humans inhabited the region as far back as 250,000 years ago. It was the largest hand-axe factory in Nigeria, and possibly in the world.
The narrators also conveniently ignored the Nsude Step pyramid at Nsukka which was a replica of ancient Egypt's Step pyramid at Saqqara built by the first human genius, Imhotep and who was believed to be of Igbo descent.. The Nsude pyramid was carbondated around the same time as it more famous Step pyramid of ancient Egypt over 6,000 years ago today.
Igboukwu in Anambra state was actually the bronze manufacturing capital of the ancient world and crafted and carved artefacts and monuments thousands of years before there was Nok or Ife and Bini. In fact, Igboukwu was the first site in today's nigeria to be excavated for carbon testing following an accidental siting of treasures in its underbelly by a villager resulting in british archaeologist, Thurstan Shaw digging the area and carting away lorry loads of treasures in artefacts and monuments to britain twice in 1953 and 1959.
There are more I can list, but these are three major igbo driven civilizations that were unrivaled and unmatched by any not just in today's nigeria, but entire world.
Watching the documentary struck me the extent and degree of revisionism by phobic nigerian establishment at suppressing true Igbo origin and civilization. And it permeates the entire segment of the documentary including the post flag independence crisis and role apportioning.
Even Ojukwu was almost demonized for his intelligence and self determination for his people!
They conveniently forgot to narrate how nigeria got its name and the real reason for its british imposition.
One masked but interesting information is the role of ajai crowther in british colonization of nigeria and its resultant consequence in human, economic and political cost till date.
Lol corruption don dey before independence 😂😂😂
The western colonial genociders trying to enlighten we the backward barbaric Africans about gender violence
I sat in the same spot and watched the whole thing.
Thanks!
Thank you for your efforts
You omitted Abdussalmi regeme after the death of Sani Abacha before Obasanjo's….
Nigeria is the British curse forced on us by the West. Had the they allowed Biafra to exit this evil, the prosperity of our people in trade & technology also would’ve been Africa’s too. Instead, they prefer to have the richest & most intelligent African tribe held down by gworo-eating cows.
if Nigeria can seperate or go back to regional system of government it would be great.
Thou this is written but our leader is our problem with religion intolerant leaders acquire wealth the leaves in this world they will not go grave with wealth thank God
Hatred, ethnic interest were promoted in Nigeria leading to backwardness, corruption and difficult governance up till now.
Your research was full of distortions and biases, yet, I commend your efforts
Excellent Programme ,very impressive comprehensive history of the many peoples that make up, and make Nigeria such a rich and vibrant country . Well done
Please answer my question. As great as the Benin kingdom, they left everyone in their land to go and beg prince Oromiyan to go and rule over them? Please he was a "banished'
prince that the Benins asked to come back to take his position as a king.
The British are the problem in Africa.Before the British. They brought their system that only works in their land not in Africa.The African have their own system of government in which,there are no homeless people.Everyone has royal blood in them.Have their own ways of punishing criminals and so forth.
Who ever ignores history is a fool enough to repeat the same mistake….