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April Recap: Over 11,000 new pages scanned
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I found my namesake in the archive! But unlike me, this Samson was living up to the biblical weight of his name in the 1970s.
Samson Ibeabuchi was a strongman performer who could lift a 60 kg block of wood with his dreadl...
March Recap: A Month Inside Nigerian Women’s Lives
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Only a year after she made Nigeria’s team to the Commonwealth Games as a 16-year-old athlete, Violet Odogwu faced a career-ending knee injury in 1959.
This would keep her from competing for four years, and she was close t...
February Recap: We’re Scanning Again!
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This month, we found a story in the archive that became the most viral piece of Nigerian history we’ve ever shared.
In the early 1970s, a young Nigerian student, Mudashiru Ayeni, built a battery-powered robot office assistan...
January Recap: 6,000 New Followers, One Step Closer to the Past
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This month marks sixty years since the Nigerian Civil War officially ended, with Yakubu Gowon’s declaration of “No victor, no vanquished.” An optimistic attempt to mend a broken nation, but the reality that followed was fa...
The Year You Become an Archivi.ng Member
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You have to go back 112 years to find the most consequential January 1 in Nigerian history. With the swing of his pen, Frederick Lugard amalgamated the Northern and Southern Protectorates in 1914. It’s why you’re reading t...
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