Our land and people:
| dc.contributor.author | AKINTUNDE, Sowunmi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-12T14:22:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-12T14:22:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1966-01-01 | |
| dc.description | Looking at the map of Nigeria, one will see a strip of land in the south-west corner of the Niger, bounded on the north by the Ilorin Emirate on the south by the Lagos lagoon, on the east by the Niger, and the west by the Dahomey frontier, covering an area of about 49,000 square miles, with a population of 6,362,000. is the Western Region. Mystery still surrounds the origin of the people inhabiting this Region. Legends have connected the majority of them with the tribes of Nimrod, son of Cush. According to one account, they were said to be descendants of Oduduwa. son of Nimrod, who migrated from Sudan to the West African Coast and settled at He Ife. Another account is that they were some of the Canaanite or Phoenician colonists left behind by the great expedition sent out by Necho, an Egyptian King, in 612 B.C. These Phoenicians, it was said, sojourned for some time in the southern part of River Niger. Still, another story says that He Ifc was the cradle of creation from whence all nations of the world had migrated; Oduduwa and his eastern hordes mixed with the “Dwarfish men”, the aboriginal natives of Ife. It was suggested that in the conflict between the two races, the inferior tribes were annihilated or absorbed by the superior people from the east. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ibadan's marketplaces are among the biggest in West Africa; Timber awaiting shipment at Sapele; Mapo Hall, Ibadan; Osse River Bridge; New River bridge in Ijebu Province; View of Ibadan; Carter Bridge, linking Lagos with the mainland; Youth Clubs are springing up all over the Region; Village Industry: Rubber tapping | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/989 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Lagos state: Public relations department, Crownbird publications, | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Crownbird Series; No. 33 | |
| dc.title | Our land and people: | |
| dc.title.alternative | Part III - The west | |
| dc.type | Book |