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Mungo Park commemorative medal. Mungo Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, though it was later proven that they are different ...
In 1830 the brothers went on an expedition to determine the course of the Niger River. They landed at Badagry in present-day Nigeria, took Clapperton's route to Bussa, then ascended the river for 160 kilometres before descending to explore the Benue River and the Niger Delta. They returned to Britain in 1831.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. Major river in West Africa Niger River Fleuve Niger (French) Joliba (Maninka) Jeliba (Bambara) Maayo Ɓaleewo 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤴𞤮 𞤄𞤢𞤤𞤫𞤮 (Fula) Egerew ⴻⴳⴻⵔⴻⵡ (Tamasheq) Issa Beri (Zarma) Kwara (Hausa) Toru Beni (Ijo languages) Ọya (Yoruba) Óshimiri/ Oshimili ...
Lander was the son of John Lander, a Truro innkeeper and noted wrestler, [2] and was born in the Fighting Cocks Inn (later the Dolphin Inn). Educated at "Old Pascoe's" in Coombs Lane, Truro, until 1817 when, aged 13, he accompanied a merchant to the West Indies, where he suffered an attack of yellow fever in San Domingo. [3]
A Narrative of the Expedition . . . to the River Niger in 1841, (1848)). [1] After purchasing the site, and concluding a treaty with the Fula emir of Nupe, he proceeded to clear the ground, build houses, form enclosures and pave the way for a future city. In less than five years he had opened up the navigation of the Niger, made roads, and ...
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company Historians date the oldest photograph to 1826 France. At least that's the oldest one that we know of today. That's when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce started ...
Macgregor Laird (1808 – 9 January 1861) was a Scottish merchant pioneer of British trade on the River Niger.Laird's commercial expedition between 1832 and 1834 to navigate the Niger and initiate trade between Europeans and Africans northwards of the coast was considered a failure: the majority of the passengers died and the volume of trade realized was minimal.
In 2022, Nigeria experienced its worst flood in more than a decade which killed more than 600 people, displaced around 1.4 million and de Floods in Nigeria kill at least 49, displace thousands ...