They Were Already Great
A journey through six civilizations that shaped a continent — and the world. The story of Nigeria does not begin with colonization. It does not begin with borders drawn by men who had never set foot on the land. It begins thousands of years earlier in the Jos Plateau, beside Lake Chad, in the sacred city of Ile-Ife, with people who were already building, governing, creating, and thriving long before the word 'Africa' had even entered a European mouth. Start with the Nok. In the age when Rome...
