@_themerc2: 🇳🇬 THE TRUE NAME OF NIGERIA 🇳🇬 It is Nigerian independence Nigeria wasn’t always called Nigeria. 😮 Before 1914, this land was home to powerful kingdoms — the Yoruba Oyo Empire ⚔️, Benin Kingdom 🏰, Sokoto Caliphate ☪️, Kanem-Bornu Empire 🛡️, Igbo communities 🌾, and Tiv lands 🌍 — all independent with their own rulers, languages & armies. The word “Nigeria” isn’t even African. 🚫 It was invented in 1897 by Flora Shaw, a British journalist for The Times of London. 📰 She took “Niger” (from Latin, named by explorers like Mungo Park) and added “-ia.” A marketing label for the British Empire’s new colonial asset. 💰 Shaw later married Lord Frederick Lugard, the man who forced the North and South to merge — stamping the name “Nigeria” on millions. 💥 Before then, we were Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Edo, Kanuri, Tiv. Each a nation. Not a colony. ✊🏾 We can’t know where we’re going if we don’t know where we came from. #africa #african #nigeria
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Saturday 04 October 2025 18:31:29 GMT
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no African country has their original names
2025-10-05 10:55:34
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Alfred Abunaw :
All these names of African countries have to be changed to get rid colonial spirits.
2025-10-05 04:41:52
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Justgirls💋 :
Africa is not a real word. We are from Alkebulan. Let’s start there 💋
2025-10-06 02:26:48
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machiavelli887 :
Africa also is a made up name
2025-10-06 00:07:11
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Cherie Coco :
Why did you say Igbo communities?
2025-10-07 14:44:22
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Freyja 🇨🇲🇳🇬 𓋹 :
They should be teaching this in school!
2025-10-08 00:13:06
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BjTaoma :
So they just went around renaming everything?
2025-10-05 16:53:16
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☠︎ 𝕯𝖊𝖊 ☠︎🕷💸 :
Igbo communities? You mean Nri Kingdom and Aro Confederacy and many other official titles
2025-10-06 06:41:42
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M I c h e l l e🇵🇹🇿🇦🏡🇬🇧 :
did a DNA test and am a small part Nigerian. 🇳🇬 amazing and feel so blessed to have African blood as although mostly European I was born and raised in South Africa 🇿🇦 very interesting. thanks for this!
2025-10-05 09:18:36
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✨Glow and Glam Affiliates✨ :
That’s why we have more than 520 languages😳
2025-10-13 11:21:53
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Panaa_Soul_Bantu :
Sad😭 I hope Nigeria will one day restore its own identity and name, yet remain unified. There is power in numbers.❤
2025-10-05 18:49:27
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Ms SweetishPapaya🌺👻 :
I like the part where he told us what it was actually called😃
2025-10-05 14:57:31
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kingkarine. :
Omo
2025-10-05 12:03:49
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Haki Shakur :
The Igbo Kingdom of Nri, Opobo City, Bight of Biafra
2025-10-05 16:15:12
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Dark Sister :
Your voice is enchanting
2025-10-05 20:40:59
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Here to cheer you up😁 :
That's why we can't unite
we just need to go our separate ways and the be near by neighborhood's
2025-10-07 01:20:59
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Ikandi Licious :
I’ve been saying that we have so many culture in Nigeria and a lot of them were not related and had their own countries but people do not want to believe me 😂
2025-10-08 17:25:15
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Debbie :
the igala kingdom
2025-10-07 10:01:48
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Equinoxion :
I have Edo lineage
2025-10-05 22:09:39
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King_solomon :
I’m from TIV
2025-10-07 20:53:27
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Fajr Fehintola :
Your voice could put me to sleep 😩
2025-10-06 11:25:24
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Izzy Jone$ :
The Berlin Conference changed everything about Africa. They changed hisotry before our eyes and then we were taught half truths and lies!!
2025-10-05 16:37:44
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Skele Da Bone :
I only know Edo Nation 👌
2025-10-07 06:17:53
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kay_in_nature :
One parent a Yoruba 🔥 not a *Nigerian*
2025-10-06 16:38:24
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ryn7nho :
nicolas jackson?
2025-10-05 14:58:15
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