History of Benin, history of Benin from the precolonial period to the present. As a political unit, Benin was created by the French colonial conquest at the end of the 19th century. In the precolonial period, the territory comprised a multiplicity of ind
This article chronicles the history of Benin. The country was the seat of one of the great medieval African kingdoms called Danhomey. As of 1990, the territory became a French colony. It gained full independence from France in 1960. Between 1960 and 1972, a succession of military coups ...
He established a hereditary succession to the throne and vastly expanded the territory of the Benin kingdom, which by the mid-16th century extended from the Niger River delta in the east to what is now Lagos in the west. Ewuare also rebuilt the capital (present-day Benin City), endowing...
One of his plans was to establish a new capital territory in the center of the country, at Abuja. On 13 February 1976, Muhammad was assassinated in the course of an abortive insurgency. He was replaced as head of the government by the former chief of staff of the armed forces, Lt. ...
The Éwé occupy the southern third of the country. The Tem occupy the central section just north of the Éw. The Kabiyê occupy the northwest section to the northwest of the Tem bordering on Benin. The Moba occupy the northernmost section of the country bordering on Burkina. However, ...
In 1718 the French adopted the political outline, the Emergence of Council of Policy and Justice for their French territory. In a few more years, the exporting of sugar, cotton and coffee became brisk and highly profitable. Slaves rebelled in 1763, leading a major revolt in the city of...
Nigeria is a country in West Africa, Officially called the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with thirty-six states and the federal capital territory, Abuja. Nigeria got her independence on October lst, 1960, and is made up of over 450 ethnic groups with Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba being the major...
Although, at the time, it was the religion of a few elite until the nineteenth century. The Niger River, the name from which Nigeria is coined, empties into the Bights of Benin and Bonny, through an intricate network of Delta characterized by a thick mangrove which the British ventured in...
tried to stop Niger oilgoing through theNiger-Benin Oil pipeline(at1950 km, it is the longest oil pipeline in Africa) on Benin territory, until the Chinese government gave Talon a small tap on the back questioning his poor judgement to stop crude oil, forcing Talon toreopen the tap for ...
Unfortunately, rather than easing restrictions on freeing the enslaved, the state gradually increased them to the point of prohibition. By 1800 many Quakers were choosing to leave North Carolina for the newly created free states in the Northwest Territory (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois), where none of ...