01 Lost history · Lagos
The man who would not bow
Bode Thomas & the Alaafin →02 Lost history · Abia
The women who sat on the empire
Aba Women's War, 1929 →03 People · Kano
Alhassan Dantata: The Boy from Bebeji Who Begged in Accra
Dangote's great-grandfather and his hard start →04 Lost history · Bayelsa
Odi, where only three buildings stood
Odi, November 1999 →05 Legend · Cross River
Ekpe and Abakuá, the Calabar society that crossed to Cuba
How Calabar's Ekpe became Cuba's Abakuá →06 Lost history · Edo
Benin 1897, the invasion that paid for itself at auction
How the Benin Bronzes were sold in London to cover the cost of the war →07 Lost history · Kogi
The Steel Dream That Kept Nigeria Waiting
Ajaokuta Steel, Kogi →08 Place name · Nasarawa
The Prince Who Lost a Throne and Found Lafia
How Lafia was founded →09 Lost history · Kaduna
"The Jemaa Head: The Ancient Nok Sculpture Used as a Scarecrow"
How tin miners stumbled on Nok, and how looters nearly emptied it →10 Legend · Ogun
The great ditch of a childless queen
Sungbo's Eredo →11 Lost history · Enugu
Twenty-one miners at Iva Valley
Iva Valley shooting, Enugu, 1949 →12 Legend · Katsina
Kusugu Well: Where a Stranger Killed the Snake Called 'King'
Bayajidda, Queen Daurama and the well at Daura →13 People · Delta
Dom Domingos, the Warri prince who studied in Portugal
The Catholic kings of Warri and the prince sent to Coimbra →14 Lost history · Akwa Ibom
Ikot Abasi 1929, the boy whose mother was shot and the judge he became
The 1929 women's shooting at Ikot Abasi and Justice Udo Udoma →15 People · Edo
The queen mother behind the FESTAC mask
Queen Idia and the pendant Britain would not lend →16 Lost history · Benue
Atem Tyough: When Tivland Rose Against Its Own Rulers
The Tiv revolts of 1960-1966 →17 Lost history · Borno
The Red Wall Nobody Remembers
Garu Kime, Monguno →18 Legend · Borno
Gamergu: The People Whose Nickname Admits They Were There First
The Malgwa of Borno and the name 'Gamergu' →19 Place name · Oyo
The town where twins are everywhere
Igbo-Ora, twin capital →20 Lost history · Anambra
The bronzes he used to water his goats
Isaiah Anozie and the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes →21 Lost history · Zamfara
"Bakolori: The Dam That Took the Farmers' Land"
A giant irrigation scheme, unpaid farmers, and the killings of April 1980 →22 Lost history · Rivers
The Ogoni women who told Shell to stay out
FOWA and the women of the Ogoni struggle →23 Lost history · Cross River
The stone faces in the forest circles
Ikom monoliths (akwanshi) →24 Legend · Edo
Igun Street, where only seven families may cast Benin bronze
The hereditary guild of Benin bronze casters on Igun Street →25 Lost history · Niger
The River Town That Sent Trains North
Baro river port →26 Lost history · Kogi
Lokoja Asylum: The Prison Where Patients Were Made to Work
The North's first asylum was a prison, and its patients were its workforce →