Tag: Nigeria

European colonization In the second half of the 15th century, Portuguese navigators came into contact with the coastal kingdoms, and soon established an intense and prosperous slave trade for plantations…

Energy and mining Nigeria has deposits of coal, marble and tin, but oil is the main resource in the subsoil. Discovered in the Niger Delta in the 1950s, it soon…

Population With representatives of almost all the native races of Africa, Nigeria presents a great diversity of peoples and cultures. In the country, located at the confluence of the transcontinental…

Physical geography The most populous of the countries on the African continent, Nigeria is also one of the most advanced and diversified economies. Although hampered by the enormous cultural heterogeneity…