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  2. History of Nigeria before 1500 - Wikipedia

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    The history of Nigeria before 1500 has been divided into its prehistory, Iron Age, and flourishing of its kingdoms and states. Acheulean tool-using archaic humans may have dwelled throughout West Africa since at least between 780,000 BP and 126,000 BP ( Middle Pleistocene ). [ 1 ]

  3. Cinema of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Same year, Appiah again was awarded 'Best Actress' at the Nollywood and African Film Critics Awards (NAFCA). [70] Ghanaian actors like Majid Michel have also been awarded at several Nollywood award ceremonies. Sam Onanuga, a Nigerian script writer blames the trend on the reluctance of the established Nigerian acts to partake in more films on ...

  4. History of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria 1914. Ten years after the "Scramble for Africa" - in the 1890s - it became increasingly clear that colonial rule in Africa was not a profitable endeavour and that the exploration and development of the continent, which had originally been initiated by the private sector, could only be continued through state-military measures and/or ...

  5. History of Nigeria (1500–1800) - Wikipedia

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    The history of the territories which since ca. 1900 have been known under the name of Nigeria during the pre-colonial period (16th to 18th centuries) was dominated by several powerful West African kingdoms or empires, such as the Oyo Empire and the Islamic Kanem-Bornu Empire in the northeast, and the Igbo kingdom of Onitsha in the southeast and ...

  6. Journey of an African Colony - Wikipedia

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    It was released on Netflix [2] on the 60th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. [3] The film series is based on two books — Possessed: A History of Law & Justice in the Crown Colony of Lagos 1861–1906 and A Platter of Gold: Making Nigeria — by retired attorney general and commissioner for justice in Lagos State, Olasupo Shasore. [4]

  7. List of historical films set in Near Eastern and Western ...

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    The story of Jason and Argonauts, a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. The Giants of Thessaly: 1960: 1300 BC: loosely based on the epic poem Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius. The Ten Commandments: 1956: 1290–1213 BC

  8. List of Nigerian films - Wikipedia

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    1 Before 1970. 2 1970s. 3 1980s. 4 1990s. Toggle 1990s subsection. 4.1 1990. 4.2 1991. 4.3 1992. 4.4 1993. ... This is a list of films / movies produced in Nigeria by ...

  9. Palaver (1926 film) - Wikipedia

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    Palaver, otherwise known as Palaver: A Romance of Northern Nigeria, is a 1926 silent film shot in British Nigeria; it is recognized today as the first Nigerian feature film. [ 1 ] The film was significant for its use of non-professional local Nigerians as actors.