Military Conflict – Nigerian Civil War
(1967) Biafra’s Declaration of Independence
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Declaration of Biafra Fellow countrymen and women, you, the people of Eastern Nigeria: Conscious of the supreme...
David W. Eka (1945– )
Image Courtesy of LDS Church News David William Eka, engineer, elder in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu (1968- )
Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu is a Nigerian-American doctor who is best known for discovering chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the brain injury...
Wole Soyinka (1934- )
Akinwande Ouwole “Wole” Soyinka, the first African writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature (1986) was born in Abeokuta,...
Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian-Biafran War, was a three-year bloody conflict with a death toll numbering...
Benjamin Nnamdi “Zik” Azikiwe (1904-1996)
Nnamdi Azikiwe was the first President of Nigeria and was instrumental in founding a string of newspapers across Nigeria. Azikiwe...
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
Chinua Achebe of Nigeria was one of the most famous 20th Century African writers. He published his first novel Things...
