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The Bight of Bonny (also known as the Bight of Biafra) is a bight off the West African coast, in the easternmost part (beyond the Bight of Benin to the West) part of the Gulf of Guinea. It extends from the river delta of the Niger in the north till Cape Lopez in Gabon.

Countries located at the Bight of Bonny are Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea (including Annobon), São Tomé and Príncipe and Gabon.

History

On 30 June 1849, Britain established a colonial protectorate over the Bight of Biafra, under the authority of the British Consuls of the Bight of Benin :
  • May 1852 - 1853 Louis Fraser
  • 1853 - April 1859 Benjamin Campbell
  • April 1859 - 1860 George Brand
  • 1860 - January 1861 Henry Hand
  • January 1861 - May 1861 Henry Grant Foote
  • May 1861 - 6 August 1861 William McCoskry (acting)
On 6 August 1861, the Bights of Biafra and the neighboring Bight of Benin protectorate (under its own British consuls) became a united British protectorate Bights of Biafra and Benin, again under British consuls:
  • 1861 - December 1864 Richard Francis Burton
  • December 1864 - 1873 Charles Livingstone
  • 1873 - 1878 George Hartley
  • 1878 - 13 September 1879 David Hopkins
  • 13 September 1879 - 5 June 1885 Edward Hyde Hewett.
From 16 July 1884 this merged into the British protectorate over Brass, Bonny, Opobo, Aobh and Old Calabar (excluding Lagos), which was confirmed on 5 June 1885), and named Oil Rivers Protectorate, where in August 1891 effective consular administration was established, headed by a consul general (5 June 1885 the aforementoned former consul Edward Hyde Hewett became the first). This area would in different steps merge further via the 12 May 1893 Niger Coast Protectorate, 1 January 1900 renamed Protectorate of Southern Nigeria (into which on 16 February 1906 Lagos was incorporated), on 28 February 1906 made into the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, since 1 January 1914 part of British Nigeria Colony and Protectorate.

The bight was renamed within independent Nigeria in 1972, when after the Biafran War, the Nigerian government wanted to remove the name of the secessionist Biafra. People who still consider themselves Biafrans live in various parts of the world today.

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For other meanings of bight, see Bight.


In geography, bight has two meanings.

A bight can be simply a bend or curve in any geographical feature—usually a bend or curve in the line between land and water.
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area.
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Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Africa. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude ) is in the gulf.
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delta is a landform where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary, lake or another river. It builds up sediment outwards into the flat area which the river's flow encounters (as a deltaic deposit
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Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending over 2500 miles (about 4180 km). It runs in a crescent through Guinea, Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta of the Oil Rivers,
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Cape Lopez is a 55 km-long peninsula on the coast of west central Africa, in the country of Gabon. It separates the Gulf of Guinea from the South Atlantic Ocean, and is located at latitude -0.63° (0° 38' S) and longitude 8.7° (8° 42' E).
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Motto
"Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress"
Anthem
"Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria's Call Obey"


Capital Abuja

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Motto
"Paix - Travail - Patrie"   (French)
"Peace - Work - Fatherland"
Anthem
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Motto
"Unidad, Paz, Justicia"   (Spanish)
"Unity, Peace, Justice"
Anthem
Caminemos pisando la senda
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Annobón (or Annabon or Anabon; from Ano bom Portuguese for Good Year), also known as Pagalu or Pigalu, is an island of Equatorial Guinea.
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Anthem
Independência total


Capital
(and largest city) São Tomé

Official languages Portuguese
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Anthem
La Concorde


Capital
(and largest city) Libreville

Official languages French
Demonym Gabonese
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protectorate is a political entity (a sovereign state or less developed native polity, such as a tribal chiefstainship or feudal princely state) that formally agrees by treaty to enter into an unequal relationship with another, stronger state, called the protector
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Consul (abbrev. cos.; Latin plural consules) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably Republican France before the Napoleonic
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Brass is any alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses, each of which has unique properties[1]. Note that in comparison bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin.[2].
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Opobo is a city in River state, southern Nigeria. As of 2007 Opobo had an estimated population of 131,579.[1]

A key centre of the palm oil trade, Opobo was founded in 1869 by Jaja, an Igbo slave-boy who had risen to become a powerful merchant prince in Bonny.
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The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1891 and confirmed at the Berlin Conference the following year, renamed on 12 May 1893, and merged with the
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A consul general heads a consulate general and is a consul of the highest rank serving at a principal location and usually responsible for other consular offices within a country.

It is abbreviated "CG" and the plural is consuls general.
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Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria, formed in 1900 from union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River.
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Lagos, Nigeria
Lagos as seen from the harbour near Victoria Island.

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Seal
Nickname: Eko
City of Lagos showing main urban areas
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Beginnings

Following the Napoleonic Wars, the British expanded trade with the Nigerian interior. In 1885 British claims to a West African sphere of influence received international recognition and in the following year the Royal Niger Company was chartered under the
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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1940s  1950s  1960s  - 1970s -  1980s  1990s  2000s
1969 1970 1971 - 1972 - 1973 1974 1975

Year 1972 (MCMLXXII
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Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, July 6, 1967 – January 13, 1970, was a political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra.
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Republic of Biafra was a short-lived secessionist state in southern Nigeria. It existed from May 30, 1967 to January 15, 1970. The country was named after the Bight of Biafra, the bay of the Atlantic to its south.
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