This Week in History; Nigeria, Kingdom of Lesotho and Guinea archive Independance, Nadine Gordimer wins Nobel and Many Others.

This week 1st -7th, is incredible in Africa as far as History is concerned. Here at BRT, we have started a feature called This Week In History, the purpose is to highlight the important elements in Africa in the past days, of this week.

Independence For Africa.

On the first day of October, 1960, Nigeria achieved independence from the colonial masters - the British with Namdi Azikiwe as Governor General. Later, in 1962 0n the

Tracing The Paths Of History In Africa; The City Kingdom Of Benin.

Benin City (the name of a powerful kingdom of the same name) rose to prominence in the fifteenth century. Located in the present-day southwestern Nigeria.

      The territory of the Kingdom extended from the western Ibo tribes on the shores of the Niger River, way through parts of the southwestern region of Nigeria. It expanded eastwards to Niger River, near the Oyo Kingdom, which extended through most of South Western Nigeria in the West to parts of present day Republic of Benin.

The Ogiso dynasty came to an end in 1180 AD by the help of Eweka 1 the first Oba who changed the ancient name of Igodomigodo to Edo and 'Ogiso' dynasty to Oba dynasty. The word "Oba" is a Yoruba title for king. Eweka 1 was the son of Oranmiyan a Yoruba prince from ile ife an the grandson of Oduduwa the Oba of ife. In this, Eweka 1 was the first "Oba" and architect of this title.