10 Things You Didn’t Know About Nigeria
A brief look into the history of Africa’s most populous nation.
The media has a knack for wrongly painting the image of certain nations. Though most times, these images are often true, they do not do justice nor paint the whole picture of a place. I bet a lot of people do not know anything more besides what the media paints of Africa and its nations. So today I am putting together a listicle of historical events that have taken place in my country Nigeria. With the hope that this would be the beginning of creating a better understanding of the country, and the continent at large. These events do not define who we are today, but its part of or history — our heritage.
1879- Mary Slessor aborted the killing of twins.
In the eastern part of Nigeria, around 1800, there was a belief that twins were from the devil and they brought bad luck. So twin babies were either murdered or abandoned and left for dead. This abominable act persisted into early 1900. Mary Slessor who was a Scottish born, who travelled to West Africa on a missionary capacity, and found this act of infanticide to be…
