The term History has not come without criticism as many critics sees it as misnomer and sentimental, alluding the “His” to masculinity tending to discredit the female folks. This notion has seen the female race in Nigeria in obscurity for majority of the history of the most populous black nation.
Some emotional outbursts on history include:
History is a bunk.
History is the biography of gentlemen.
History is what Historians make of it.
History is storytelling, etc.
Encyclopedia Britannica defines history as a discipline that studies the chronological records of events (as affecting a nation or people) based on a critical examination of source materials and usually presenting an explanation of their causes.
According to Hegel, “History terminates in the present” history could not talk of the future because nothing had happened in the future in question. More so History is more about man in the society than outside it. The story of man before the formation of society is generally referred.
At this point it is safe to say that History is not gender sentimental which begs the question how the likes of Queen Amina a fierce warlord of Zazzau, Margaret Ekpo a renown human rights activist, Flora Nwakpa, the first African woman novelist to be published in English Language in Britain and achieve International recognition with her first novel “Efuru” and ...................you can follow the link for more and updates regularly



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