Igbo People Created This Four Market Days System.

A trade/market system run by women for thousand years that makes sure there is nothing like abject poverty in the whole of Igboland.

No surprise, an Igbo Woman, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the Director of World Trade Organization. Eke, Orie, Afor and Nkwo are the four market days that keeps rotating and the Igbo Calendar is based on it.

From time immemorial till date, most Igbo wives traditionally own what is called Mbubo Ede (Cocoyam Garden), a little piece of farmland apportioned by the husband.

If you want to know about Royal Niger Company, then you have to go way back to the beginning of how Nigeria got her name as Nigeria.

Hint: it's not "Niger-Area"

A THREAD! What does the name Nigeria mean to you?

Nigeria is simply a geographical expression of the imperialists’ greed and spite.  

Recently, I was on a flight from Dallas to London when I struck an interesting conversation with an American professor of African history. We talked...