oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. In September 2008, President Umaru Yar'Adua announced the formation of a Niger Delta Ministry, with the Niger Delta Development...
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through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta, into the Gulf...
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Mungo Park (explorer) (redirect from Travels into the Interior of Africa)
exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which...
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Ijaw people (category Indigenous peoples of the Niger Delta)
people, are an ethnic group found in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, with significant population clusters in Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers. They also occupy Edo, Ondo...
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Colonial Nigeria (section Royal Niger Company)
the Niger River. The delta masked the mouth of the great river, and for centuries Nigerians chose not to tell Europeans the secrets of the interior. In...
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environment of the Cross–Niger eco-region. To the south and south-west lies the Niger Delta swamp forests. To the north, the Cross–Niger transition forests...
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Macgregor Laird (section Niger voyage)
about the design of vessels suitable on the Niger and the various settlements in the interior of the Niger Delta. Laird never returned to Africa but instead...
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traditions. In broad terms, the southeast was occupied mainly by Igbo, the Niger Delta by Edo and Igbo related people, the southwest by Yoruba and related people...
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1239–1259. doi:10.1002/2016JG003701. S2CID 135024272. "Niagara River". "Ganga Delta". Khan, Abul A.; Pant, Naresh C.; Goswami, Anuj; Lal, Ravish; Joshi, Rajesh...
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Timbuktu (category Communities on the Niger River)
Situated on the northern edge of the Niger Delta, Timbuktu is at the crossroads of the Saharan trade routes and the River Niger. Founded in 1100 by the Tuareg...
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