Hey! It's throwback Thursday. Just relax with these:

1. Vintage Lipton Tea ad (sold for 75kobo) that appeared in Emotan magazine, Nigeria on the 2nd of February 1980.
Credit: Nigeria Nostalgia Project

2. Nigeria vs Dahomey (Benin)
friendly match at King George V Stadium, Onikan
1959.

3. A Northern Nigerian chief and Two Police guards, Kano 1937


4.The Benin Expedition of 1897 was a punitive expedition by a United Kingdom force of 1,200 under Admiral Sir Harry Rawson in response to the defeat of a previous British-led invasion force under Acting Consul General James Philips (which had left all but two men dead).[1] Rawson’s troops captured, burned, and looted Benin City, bringing to an end the west African Kingdom of Benin. As a result much of the country’s art, including the Benin Bronzes, was either destroyed, looted or dispersed.

September 9th, 1897, Omo n’Oba Ovoramwen is taken out of Benin by a NCPF: unit of sixty men commanded by Captains Carter and Henniker to Gele-Gele port, and transferred on to a Protectorate yacht on the final journey (exile) to Calabar.

Phillips’s objectives, as stated in a letter dated the 16 November 1896) were finally achieved. The city had been ‘visited’ (invaded and captured), the ‘obstruction’ (Omo n’Oba Ovenramwen) had been removed and the `ivory’ (treasuries of Benin kingdom: Artworks, sacred and religious items, mnemonics and visual history, including personal effects) in his Palace stolen.

Some of the ivory was shipped to England, and a fraction of it finally auctioned in Paris to pay for the ‘visit’. A reference book has it that a large collection of art from Benin is brought to France; these works influence the artistic and formal concerns of modern artists, especially Pablo Picasso and the Cubist.
Source: British museum

5. Premier of the Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello keenly encouraging female education in the late 1950s


6. Wole Soyinka at home
1975

7. Children pray before taking their meal at an orphanage. Photo by Abbas, 1971.

8.Biafran troops in training are taken by Romano Cagnoni, 1968.

9. 1781 and 1790 advertisements for the sale of 620 and 436 Igbo people at Montego Bay, Jamaica who arrived from Bonny Island in present day Rivers State, Nigeria. Most Igbo people transported over the Atlantic, especially during the collapse of Igbo societies in the 18th century, were done so via ships coming from Liverpool and Bristol (UK) to the ports of Bonny and Calabar, many Igbo people consequently ended up in British colonies where they were among the most numerous ethnic groups. Western Jamaica in particular (including Montego Bay) received a high amount of enslaved Igbo people, maybe even making them the majority among Africans. The International Slavery Museum at Liverpool has an Igbo family compound exhibit.

10. Malcolm X pictured here at a reception held in Nigeria during a visit (1964) #nigeria #nigerianhistory #whatweseee

11. Rolf Steiner during his service as commander of the 4th Biafran Commando Brigade. A famous legionnaire who served in Algeria and Vietnam, Steiner became a Biafran citizen and refused to take pay while leading the 4th Commandos, believing it a noble cause. #nigeria #biafra

12. King Jaja of Opobo
(1821-1891)
Born in Igboland and sold as a slave to a Bonny trader at the age of twelve, he was named Jubo Jubogha by his first master. He was later sold to Chief Alali, the head of the Opubo Annie Pepple Royal House. Called Jaja by the British, this gifted and enterprising individual eventually became one of the most powerful men in the eastern Niger Delta.

The Niger Delta, where the Niger empties itself into the Gulf of Guinea in a system of intricate waterways, was the site of unique settlements called city-states.

From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, Bonny, like the other city-states, gained its wealth from the profits of the slave trade. Here, an individual could attain prestige and power through success in business and, as in the case of Jaja, a slave could work his way up to head of state. The House was a socio-political institution and was the basic unit of the city-state.

In the nineteenth century—after the abolition of the slave trade in 1807—the trade in slaves was supplanted by the trade in palm oil, which was so vibrant that the region was named the Oil Rivers area.

The Houses in Bonny and other city-states controlled both the internal and external palm oil trade because the producers in the hinterland were forbidden to trade directly with the Europeans on the coast; the Europeans never left the coast for fear of malaria.

Astute in business and politics, Jaja became the head of the Anna Pepple House, extending its activities and influence by absorbing other houses, increasing operations in the hinterland and augmenting the number of European contacts. A power struggle ensued among rival factions in the houses at Bonny leading to the breakaway of the faction led by Jaja. He established a new settlement, which he named Opobo. He became King Jaja of Opobo and declared himself independent of Bonny.

Strategically located between Bonny and the production areas of the hinterland, King Jaja controlled trade and politics in the delta. In so doing, he curtailed trade at Bonny and fourteen of the eighteen Bonny houses moved to Opobo.

In a few years, he had become so wealthy that he was shipping palm oil directly to Liverpool. The British consul could not tolerate this situation. Jaja was offered a treaty of "protection", in return for which the chiefs usually surrendered their sovereignty. After Jaja's initial opposition, he was reassured, in vague terms, that neither his authority nor the sovereignty of Opobo would be threatened.

Jaja continued to regulate trade and levy duties on British traders, to the point where he ordered a cessation of trade on the river until one British firm agreed to pay duties. Jaja refused to comply with the consul's order to terminate these activities, despite British threats to bombard Opobo. Unknown to Jaja, the Scramble for Africa had taken place and Opobo was part of the territories allocated to Great Britain. This was the era of gunboat diplomacy, where Great Britain used her naval power to negotiate conditions favorable to the British.

Lured into a meeting with the British consul aboard a warship, Jaja was arrested and sent to Accra, where he was summarily tried and found guilty of "treaty breaking" and "blocking the highways of trade".

He was deported to St. Vincent, West Indies and four years later, he died en route to Nigeria after he was permitted to return.

Ironically, Jaja's dogged insistence on African independence and effective resistance exposed British imperialism and made him the first victim of foreign territorial intrusion in West Africa. The fate of Jaja reverberated through the entire Niger delta. Amazed at this turn of events, the other delta chiefs quickly capitulated.

In addition, the discovery of quinine as the cure for malaria enabled the British traders to bypass the middlemen and deal directly with the palm oil producers, thus precipitating the decline of the city-states.

King Jaja's downfall ensured a victory for British supremacy, paving the way for the eventual imposition of the colonial system in this region by the end of the century.

Nigerian Airways
This company was founded in 1958 after the dissolution of West African Airways Corporation. It was managed by a number of foreign companies such as British Airways, KLM-Royal Dutch Airline and South African Airways. As a result of this, the cabin crew was dominated by foreigners. Most Nigerians at the time were not educated, while others lacked the training and expertise. #nigerianhistory #nigerianairways

Nigerian born photographer J.D Okhai Ojeikere captured the hairstyles of young Nigerian women in the late 1960s. ‘Hairstyle Series’ consists of over a thousand pictures of fashionable coifs and is the largest of his archive to date. 'All these hairstyles are ephemeral. I want my photographs to be noteworthy traces of them. I always wanted to record moments of beauty, moments of knowledge’. – J.D. Okhai Ojeikere

Then 1st Lady,Maryam Babangida with Princess Diana of Wales at a banquet in Lagos on March 15,1990. Credit:TRF

Women Dance The Night Away At a Yaba Nightclub. The Popular club owner said: “We don’t care What Part Of The World you are From, we are all friends. Yoruba’s, Hausa’s, Ibo’s, Bini’s All Come To my Club To drink Together As Friends”Lagos 1967. Source: African Media

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Rolf steiner tho.. That nigga's got some balls; too bad his course didn't materialize.

I love this

@aalangel

Lovely!.. I only wished you arranged the writeups against each image. So we dont have to Scroll up, and scroll down to relate.

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@aalangel

Lovely!.. I only wished you arranged the writeups against each image. So we dont have to Scroll up, and scroll down to relate.

Awww. Thanks. I'll keep that in mind next time. Doing such stuff with a phone ain't easy sometimes. Thanks again.

The Emir of Katsina and his entourage admiring Hyde Park's traffic lights closely on May 1st, 1933.

NO doubt, the death of Chief Michael Okpala, a.k.a Power Mike, which came as a rude shock to his family, relations and admirers is an incident that would linger in our memories for long if not indefinite. It is bound to be so because of the ideals he lived and died for. His eventful life that spanned for 65 years, 1939 to March 10, 2004, was remarkable for the legacies he left behind. He devoted so much for sports, his chosen field. He not only promoted sports, he used it as a tool to build friendship, brotherliness and upliftmentof the dignity of the black race. Most interestingly, he displayed rare spirit of sportsmanship. He was indeed a unique gem that left his footprints in the sands of time.

His prowess in sports which showed early in his life while he was at Adazienu Central Primary School, Anambra State, eventually, took him across the globe. He began with strongman show carrying incredible weights like 12 bags of cement, held vehicles in motion to standstill, and similar feats. Between 1967 and 1969, he was a trainer and instructor at YMCA, Tottenham Court Road, London. He toured all over England, performing in clubs as African strongest man.

Later in 1969, he went into professional wrestling campaign in Greece. In 1970 he defeated Gambian Massembula to become African Wrestling Champion. He wrestled in Madison Square Garden, New York, known as the Mecca of professional wrestling. In 1973 he defeated Ali Baba of Lebanon in Kampala, Uganda, to become World Heavy Weight Wrestling Champion.

In 1975, he defended his world title against Ali Baba. That happened to be his last titled fight. Before his retirement, it is noteworthy to recall that he wrestled and defeated notable wrestlers like Johnny Kwango of West Indies, Joseph Kovacs of Hungary, Derek Withinton of England and Jude Harris who he fought in Lagos, to mention a few.

CREDIT: All Africa

very educative this is why i love culture thread

Wow, this is so useful for me

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Very beautiful